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Foster 33

Record Id:

032-003264602

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-003264602

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100028181445.0x00041b

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Foster 33

Title:

Arthur Wellesley, First Duke of Wellington (1769-1852). Equestrian statuette. Artist(s): D'Orsay, Count Alfred Guillaume Gabriel (1801-1852) and Nicholson, Thomas Henry (d. 1870)

Scope & Content:

Arthur Wellesley, First Duke of Wellington (1769-1852). Made c.1845

Equestrian statuette. Bareheaded in uniform.

Bronze; 19 ins (48 cms) high

Circumstances of acquisition unrecorded

D’Orsay wrote to Henry Bulwer, March 1845, saying ‘I have just made a statuette of the Duke of Wellington on horseback, which is almost causing a revolution here. The Duke declares it is the finest thing he has ever seen and the only portrait by which he would wish to be known to posterity. He comes here continually to admire himself’. (See Lord G. Wellesley and J. Steegman. ‘The iconography of the First Duke of Wellington’ (London, 1935, 9). It was well known, however, that T.H. Nicholson (?-1870) helped D’Orsay with modelling and this may partly be his work. Nicholson was at first a modeller and became particularly skilled in modelling horses. He exhibited at the R.A. 1838-43. After D’Orsay’s death Nicholson claimed that he did all the work and the Count took all the credit.

Collection Area:

Visual Arts

Project / Collection:

India Office Sculptures

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-003264602

Is part of:

not applicable

Hierarchy:

032-003264602

Container:

not applicable

Record Type (Level):

Fonds

Extent:

1 Item

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Not applicable

Scripts:

Not applicable

Styles:

British school
European school

Start Date:

1844

End Date:

1846

Date Range:

c 1845

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Medium: bronze

Former Internal References:

F33

Finding Aids:

Mildred Archer, The India Office collection of paintings and sculpture (London, 1986), 95

Material Type:

Artefacts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Wellesley, Arthur, 1st Duke of Wellington, army officer and statesman, 1769-1852

Subjects:

Portraits