Timon of Athens is a c.1767 history painting by the British artist Nathaniel Dance-Holland.
It portrays a scene later in the play where Timon, having squandered his wealth on the unworthy Athenian people, is living in a self-imposed exile in a cave.
He encounters the general Alcibiades in the company of two prostitutes, and tosses the gold he has recently dug up to them.
In 1767 it displayed at the annual exhibition of the Society of Artists of Great Britain at Spring Gardens in London, where the previous year he had exhibited another neoclassical painting The Meeting of Dido and Aeneas.
[4] It was hung at Buckingham Palace in 1790, later being moved to Windsor Castle, and remains in the Royal Collection.