The Duke of Wellington Describing the Field of Waterloo to George IV is an 1840 history painting by the British artist Benjamin Robert Haydon.
[1] [2] It depicts a scene in 1821 when George IV was escorted around the site of the Battle of Waterloo, six years after it was fought, by the victorious Allied commander the Duke of Wellington.
[3] George IV was in Belgium, at the time part of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, on his was to his state visit to Hanover.
[4] The work was commissioned by Francis Bennoch and Richard Twentyman, two friends of Haydon's from the City of London.
Versions exist in both the Wellington Collection at Stratfield Saye House in Hampshire and at the Royal Hospital Chelsea in London.