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My favourite painting: The Duke of Wellington
The Waterseller of Seville, about 1620, by Diego Velázquez (1599–1660), 421⁄3in by 32in, The Wellington Collection, Apsley House, London. The Duke of Wellington says: I have known this painting all ...
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Oxford University in ‘woke’ row as portrait of duke with black boy is taken down
The painting of Henry Somerset ... The portrait has been moved out of the college to Badminton House, the ancestral home where the 12th Duke currently resides, the Daily Mail reports.
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Rhodes scholar urged Oriel College to remove portrait of 18th century Duke Henry Somerset as he was 'personally troubled' by the 'racist and dehumanising' portrait
Due to our extensive renovation of our Senior Library where the Duke of Beaufort's painting is normally hung, we have loaned the painting to Badminton House for safekeeping.' They added that 'the ...