William Salter (1804 – 22 December 1875) was an English portrait painter of the 19th century.
[1] He painted a range of subjects - his best known works are The Waterloo Banquet (1836) in Apsley House and the related studies.
Salter was baptised on 26 December 1804 in Honiton, Devon, where he was also educated.
His picture of Socrates before his Judges was painted whilst he was in Italy and is credited with his favourable reception in Florence and Padua,[2] even teaching history painting at the Florentine Academy of Fine Arts until returning to England in 1833.
[citation needed] Honiton had a new church built in 1835 and Salter contributed his own altarpiece Descent from the Cross to it for free three years later.