The Meeting of Wellington and Blücher after the Battle of Waterloo The Meeting of Wellington and Blücher after the Battle of Waterloo The Meeting of Wellington and Blücher after the Battle of Waterloo is a monumental wall painting by Irish painter Daniel Maclise, completed in 1861. It depicts the moment towards the end of the Battle of Waterloo on 18 June 1815, when the commanders of the allied British and Prussian armies, the Duke of Wellington and Marshal Blücher, met near La Belle Alliance. Measuring , it is displayed in the Royal Gallery at the Palace of Westminster. The work was commissioned in 1858, to decorate the newly reconstructed Palace of
HMS Waterloo (1818) and was sold in 1892. HMS Waterloo (1818) HMS "Waterloo" was an 80-gun third rate ship of the line, launched on 16 October 1818 at Portsmouth. She was designed by Henry Peake, and was the only ship built to her draught. She had originally been ordered as HMS "Talavera", but was renamed on the stocks after the Battle of Waterloo. In 1824 "Waterloo" was renamed HMS "Bellerophon". She formed part of an experimental squadron, which were groups of ships sent out in the 1830s and 1840s to test new techniques of ship design, armament, building and propulsion. She was placed