Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1769-1852)

Domenico Pellegrini (1759 - 1840)
Francesco Bartolozzi (1727 - 1815)

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originally painted 1810

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    Location
    Country: UK
    City: London
    Place: Ministry of Defence, Royal Artillery Barracks, Woolwich
  • About the artist
    Francesco Bartolozzi was born in Italy. He became a pupil of the German painter and printmaker Joseph Wagner, then based in Venice. In 1764, he was invited to England by Frederick Augusta Barnard, King George III's Librarian. Although best known for copying Old Master drawings in the stipple technique (such as his reproductions of Guercino’s drawings in the Royal Collection), Bartolozzi also engraved plates after contemporary artists (notably Giovanni Battista Cipriani and Angelica Kauffmann). He set up a studio in London, which produced large numbers of ‘furniture prints’ (generally set within a roundel or oval and intended for framing). In 1802 he left England to become Director of the Lisbon Academy in Portugal.
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    Artist
    Domenico Pellegrini (1759 - 1840)
    Francesco Bartolozzi (1727 - 1815)
    Title
    Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1769-1852)
    Date
    originally painted 1810
    Medium
    Engraving
    Acquisition
    Presented by the 7th Duke of Wellington, 1952
    Provenance
    Collection of Gerald Wellesley, 7th Duke of Wellington (1885-1972); by whom presented to the Ministry of Works in 1952
    GAC number
    3406