Reference code
LAW/2/213
Title
Duke of Wellington, Cambrai to Sir Thomas Lawrence, Russell Square, London
Date
15 Jul 1817
Level
Item
Extent & medium
1 piece
Content Description
He has arranged for
Lord Bathurst to sit to Lawrence for his picture to join his "collection of personages of the day"; he gives the reason as being Bathurst's crucial importance as Secretary of State for War during the height of the Penninsula War and Waterloo; he hopes Lawrence is getting on with Copenhagen.