A little known portrait of the Duke of Wellington
November 15, 2016 - The Chairman in News & Blog Posts, Chairman's Blog
This interesting picture of the Great Duke was thought to have been painted by 
George Henry Harlow (1787-1817) and hangs in a private address in London. George Harlow was a pupil of Sir Thomas Lawrence and copied a larger Lawrence of Wellington and therefore this is entirely plausible. But there is a problem.
George Harlow died in 1817 aged just 31 and the Duke looks a lot older than his 46-47 years that he would have been then. Comp
are with the famous Lawrence painted in 1817/18 just after Waterloo and it is clear, greying hair etc that the picture above was painted well after.
Interestingly the picture is not catalogued in the superb iconography of the Duke published in 2014 by the then Marquess of Douro, Wellington Portrayed published by Unicorn Press.
