The Waterloo Banquet (painting)

The Waterloo Banquet 1836 by William Salter

The Waterloo Banquet or The Waterloo Banquet 1836 is an 1836-1841 oil on canvas painting now in Apsley House. It is the main work by William Salter and shows an annual banquet organised by the Duke of Wellington on the anniversary of the attendees' victory at the Battle of Waterloo, a tradition that still continues today.[1] It nominally shows the banquet in 1836 but does include some of those who had attended previous banquets but had died before 1836.[1]

  1. ^ a b Freeman Marius O'Donogue (1897). "Salter, William" . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 50. London: Smith, Elder & Co.