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ARTHUR WELLESLEY, 1ST DUKE OF WELLINGTON (1769-1852)

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ARTHUR WELLESLEY, 1ST DUKE OF WELLINGTON (1769-1852)
One-page autograph letter with integral blank leaf, signed 'Wellington', from Walmer Castle, 20 October 1838, 8°, [to John Lucas], making an appointment to sit for a portrait (creased on folds).
One-page autograph letter, signed 'Wellington', from Stratfield Saye, 12 December 1839, 8°, to J. Lucas, advising him that the Vice Chancellor of the University has no objection to Wellington having some copies of his portrait engraved for his own use and ordering seven copies (creased on folds).
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John Lucas (1807-1874) built up an enormously successful practice as a fashionable portrait painter and engraver. His portrait of Wellington depicts him in the uniform of the Master of Trinity House, standing by a table covered with plans, and the subsequent engraving was published in 1841 (British Museum Catalogue of Engraved British Portraits, VI, 1925, no. 174).