Visit to Apsley House

I have lived in London now for 37 years and I fairly recently read a book about the Duke of Wellington [my review here] but, until today (a very wet and windy Bank Holiday Monday), I had never visited Wellington’s home at Apsley House at Hyde Park Corner.
The house was built between 1771-1778 by Robert Adam for Baron Apsley and sold to the Duke of Wellington in 1817, two years after the Battle of Waterloo and just before Wellington became Prime Minister. Apsley House was given to the nation in 1947. The Waterloo Gallery with its heavy oil paintings and the Dining Room with its ornate table piece are particularly fine.


 




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