The Meeting of Dido and Aeneas is an 1766 neoclassical history painting by the British artist Nathaniel Dance-Holland.

[1] It portrays the mythical meeting between Dido, Queen of Carthage and the Trojan Aeneas, inspired by the Aeneid by the Roman poet Virgil.

[2] [3] Primarily known as a portrait painter, Dance-Holland spent the years from 1754 in Italy.

Dance-Holland displayed it at the annual exhibition of the Society of Artists of Great Britain at Spring Gardens in London.

The painting is now in the collection of the Tate Britain, having been purchased with the assistance of the Art Fund in 1993.