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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 .
Feb 7, 2023 · This huge painting, just over 12 feet high and 46ft 8ins long shows the Duke of Wellington meeting the Prussian Marshal Blücher in the final moments of the Battle of Waterloo, at 9.15 pm on 18 June 1815. The two heroes of the day met at the ruins of an inn called ‘La Belle Alliance’, which had been Napoleon’s headquarters during the battle.
One of them “The Meeting of Wellington and Blücher after the Battle of Waterloo”, was commissioned in 1858 and the painter chosen was the Irish-born artist Daniel Maclise (25 January 1806 – 25 April 1870). Maclise was an obvious candidate for the commission.
The King of Saxony asks Wellington to take his troops under his command. 3 May 1815 Wellington and Blücher meet at the mid-point of Tirlemont, agreeing to support each other if Napoleon attacks the English or Prussian armies. Rumours of Napoleon's advance had brought about the meeting.
Wellington and Blücher meet at the windmill of Bussy at 1 pm, where they agree that Napoleon seems to be about to attack Ligny, not Quatre-bras. The Prussians take responsibility for this battle, but the 4th corps, headed by General von Bülow, doesn’t arrive in time, and the 80,000-strong Prussian army loses the Battle of Ligny against Napoleon.
Napoleon led his army of some 72,000 troops against the 68,000-man British army commanded by Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington. In a critical blunder, Napoleon waited until midday to give the command to attack, in order to let the waterlogged ground dry after the previous night’s rainstorm.
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The Battle of Waterloo (or La Belle Alliance) on June 18, 1815, marked Napoleon’s final and decisive defeat by a joint force of Prussian troops under the aged and rough-hewn General Field Marshall Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher (1742-1819) and British forces under Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington (1769-1852).
