[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 artist's 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.