Reynolds (S.) after Weigall Duke of Wellington {1883} NGV [PR]

Reynolds, Samuel William (1773-1836; English) after Weigall, Henry (1829?-1925; English)
Portrait of the Duke of Wellington
Mezzotint
Gift of T.F.Bailey 1883
National Gallery of Victoria (p.184.1-1)

This image of the hero of Waterloo appears to have been based on a miniature produced in the year of his death in 1852, at the age of 83.

Reynolds, identified in the inscription at lower right, was a prolific printmaker who was appointed mezzotint engraver to King George III.

The pre-Felton collection also included several other images of the Duke: * Unknown (19C British?) Duke of Wellington {1897} Loc? [PA]; *Stocks after Maclise Wellington and Blücher {1878} Loc? [PR]; Unknown after Dawe Duke of Wellington 1842 {1875} NGV [PR]; and a plaster bust.

The present print was donated together with Gilbert (G.) [attrib.] Ballarat from Golden Point 1856 {1883} SLV [DR].

Refs.

AR 1883, p.34 

For the NGV print, see https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/explore/collection/work/39899/ (details and reproduction as shown here) 

For Reynolds, see e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_William_Reynolds. The source is identified as an 1852 miniature by Weigall in John M.Wilson, A Memoir of Field-Marshal The Duke of Wellington A.Fullarton & Co., London, vol.II, p. 617 (available from Google Books; a copy formerly owned by John Pascoe Fawkner is in the SLV). For Weigall, see linked entry

For the plaster bust of the Duke of Wellington (no longer extant?), see NGV 1894, p.140 (VII.Cast Gallery, no.102)