ENGLISH SCHOOL, 19TH CENTURY, AFTER ROBERT HOME

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ENGLISH SCHOOL, 19TH CENTURY, AFTER ROBERT HOME
Sir Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1769-1852), in red major-general's coat with gold facings and epaulettes, wearing the sash and breast star of the Order of Bath, his right hand tucked inside his coat
on ivory
rectangular, 5¼ x 3¾ in. (133 x 95 mm.), gilt-metal mount within ebonised wood frame, the reverse with easel stand

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Lot Essay

The present miniature derives from a large-scale oil on canvas by Robert Home, painted in 1804. The Home portrait, now in the National Portrait Gallery, London (NPG 1471), depicts Arthur Wellesley, later Duke of Wellington without the Order of the Bath, which he was awarded in 1805, but received in India the following year.

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