Portrait of Lord Liverpool

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Portrait of Lord Liverpool
Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769-1830) - Robert Banks Jenkinson (1770-1828), 2nd Earl of Liverpool - RCIN 404930 - Royal Collection.jpg
Artist Thomas Lawrence
Yearc.1820
Type Oil on canvas, portrait
Location Royal Collection, Windsor Castle

Portrait of Lord Liverpool is a work by the English artist Thomas Lawrence depicting the British politician and Prime Minister Lord Liverpool.

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Liverpool had become Prime Minister in 1812 while Lawrence was Britain's leading society portraitist who painted the politician on a number of occasions including the 1796 portrait of Liverpool. [1] It was commissioned by George IV, then Prince Regent, for a sum of £300 guineas and was included in the inventory of Carlton House in 1819, although it remained in the artists' studio at his death in 1830. He is shown wearing the Order of the Garter on an otherwise dark, plain coat. [2] It was transferred to the Waterloo Chamber at Windsor Castle afterwards, which had been under construction by Jeffry Wyatville.

Over a number of years George commissioned Lawrence to paint leading European figures involved in the defeat of Napoleon's French Empire in 1814–1815. Among the twenty eight paintings Liverpool and his colleague Lord Castlereagh, the Foreign Secretary, represented the British political leadership along with the military commander the Duke of Wellington. It features in Joseph Nash's 1844 watercolour of the Waterloo Chamber. [3]

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