Cultural depictions of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
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Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, was an Anglo-Irish soldier and Tory statesman who was one of the leading military and political figures of 19th-century Britain, commanding the British Army during the Napoleonic Wars and serving twice as prime minister. He has frequently been depicted in various cultural media.


- Equestrian Portrait of the 1st Duke of Wellington by Francisco Goya (1812).
- Portrait of the Duke of Wellington by Francisco Goya (1812–1814).
- The Battle of Waterloo by William Sadler II (1815).
- Portrait of the Duke of Wellington by Thomas Lawrence (c.1815)
- Allegory of Waterloo by James Ward (1821).
- Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington by Thomas Lawrence (1829).
- The Duke of Wellington Describing the Field of Waterloo to George IV by Benjamin Robert Haydon (1840).
- A Dialogue at Waterloo by Edwin Landseer (1850).
- The Meeting of Wellington and Blücher after the Battle of Waterloo by Daniel Maclise (1861).[1]
- Pubs named after the Duke of Wellington sometimes display a signboard with a portrait of the Duke.
Literature
Literary works in which Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, appears:
- The Vision of Don Roderick by Sir Walter Scott (1811).
- Moby-Dick by Herman Melville (1851).
- The Trumpet-Major by Thomas Hardy (1880).
- The Great Shadow by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1892).
- Death to the French by C.S. Forester (1932).
- An Infamous Army by Georgette Heyer (1937).
- Horatio Hornblower series by C.S. Forester (1937–1967).
- He Walked Around the Horses by H. Beam Piper (1948).
- Sharpe series by Bernard Cornwell (1981–2021).
- Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke (2004).
- World Game by Terrance Dicks (2005).
- Wellington and Napoleon Quartet series by Simon Scarrow (2006–2010).
- Victory of Eagles by Naomi Novik (2008).
Film

- The Battle of Waterloo (1913), portrayed by Jack Brighton.
- Waterloo (1929), portrayed by Humberston Wright.
- Napoleon at Saint Helena (1929), portrayed by Günther Hadank.
- Congress Dances (1932), portrayed by Humberston Wright.
- The Iron Duke (1934), portrayed by George Arliss.
- The House of Rothschild (1934), portrayed by C. Aubrey Smith.
- Victoria the Great (1937), portrayed by James Dale.
- The Firefly (1937), portrayed by Matthew Boulton.
- Sixty Glorious Years (1938), portrayed by C. Aubrey Smith.
- The Rothschilds (1940), portrayed by Waldemar Leitgeb.
- Waterloo (1970), portrayed by Christopher Plummer.
- The Adventures of Gerard (1970), portrayed by John Neville.
- Lady Caroline Lamb (1972), portrayed by Laurence Olivier.
- Blackadder: Back and Forth (1999), portrayed by Stephen Fry.
- The Young Victoria (2009), portrayed by Julian Glover.
- Lines of Wellington (2012), portrayed by John Malkovich.
- Napoleon (2023), portrayed by Rupert Everett.
- Untitled Napoleon film by Nippon Animation (TBA) played by unknown.
Radio
- Portrayed by Richard Durden in the BBC Radio 4 dramas The Hanoverian Handicap (1986) and The King's Wife (1988)
- Portrayed by John Rowe as an adult and Alistair White as a boy in the 1990 BBC Radio 4 drama Nosey!, produced to celebrate the 175th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo
- Portrayed by Michael Pennington in the two-part 1993 BBC Radio 4 drama The Other Side of the Hill
- Portrayed by Simon Paisley Day in the 2015 BBC Radio 4 drama Waterloo - The Ball at Brussels
Television

Sir Thomas Lawrence
- Portrayed by John le Mesurier in a 1972 episode of Dad's Army, entitled A Soldier's Farewell.
- Portrayed by John Welsh in the first episode of the series Edward the Seventh, released in 1975.
- Portrayed by Bernard Archard in the 1983 series Number 10.
- Portrayed by Stephen Fry in a 1987 episode of Blackadder the Third, entitled Duel and Duality, and in the Blackadder special Blackadder: Back & Forth.
- Portrayed by Jeremy Young in the 1993 series Scarlet and Black.
- Portrayed by David Troughton and Hugh Fraser between 1993 and 1997 in the series Sharpe.
- Portrayed by Peter Davison in an episode of the 1999 series The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything.
- Portrayed by Ronan Vibert in the 2015 series Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell.
- Portrayed by Peter Bowles in Victoria between 2016 and 2019.
Music
- Wellington's Victory by Ludwig van Beethoven (1813).
Video games
Video games Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, appears in:
- Waterloo (1989).
- Risk II (2000).
- Empire Earth (2001).