[1] Begun in 1814 during the Visit by the Allied Sovereigns to England, it was completed during the Congress of Aix-la-Chapelle in 1818.

[2] Lawrence was Britain's leading portraitist and a future President of the Royal Academy.

It was one of a series of works commissioned from artist by the Prince Regent to celebrate the Allied victory in the Napoleonic Wars.

From 1814 to 1825 he painted portraits of many European monarchs and leaders involved in the defeat of France.

Lawrence depicts the king at full-length in military uniform with swirling smoke of battle behind him.