London, UK. 15 June 2019. Apsley House collection was formed by the ‘Spanish gift’, those paintings rescued from the battlefield at Vitoria, Spain, in June 1813 at the end of the peninsular wars.The retreating Joseph Bonaparte had taken over 200 paintings from the Spanish royal palaces, but was unable to escape with them all. Wellington’s men saved most of the paintings, among them works by Velázquez, Titian, Rubes and Brueghel. They were being transported in big trunks called ‘imperials’. Credit: Paul Quezada-Neiman/Alamy Live News
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London UK 15 June 2019 Apsley House collection was formed by the ‘Spanish gift’, those paintings rescued from the battlefield at Vitoria, Spain, in June 1813 at the end of the peninsular wars.The retreating Joseph Bonaparte had taken over 200 paintings from the Spanish royal palaces, but was unable to escape with them all. Wellington’s men saved most of the paintings, among them works by Velázquez, Titian, Rubes and Brueghel. They were being transported in big trunks called ‘imperials’. When most of the paintings had been identified and wellington was informed that they had come from Spain he wrote to the restored king Ferdinand vii and offered them back. Wellington was told that the king was “touched by your delicacy”. He did not want to deprive wellington of ‘”that which has come into your possession by means as just as they are honorable”.@Paul Quezada-Neiman/Alamy Live News