2-664-830 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'The Waterloo Chamber Windsor Castle', c1899, (1901). The Waterloo chamber formerly the Grand Dining room, decorated in the Elizabethan style with wooden carving by Grinling Gibbons (1648-1721). The Waterloo Chamber was created to display the portraits by Thomas Lawrence (1769-1830), which had been commissioned by George IV (1762-1830) to commemorate the Battle of Waterloo. The chamber contains a great number of portraits by David Wilkie (1785-1841), Thomas Lawrence (1769-1830) and William Beechey (1753-1839). From V.R.I., Her Life and Empire, by The Marquis of Lorne, K.T. [Harmsworth Bros Ltd., London, 1901]. (Colorised black and white print).