Sources for Apsley House

This section contains a guide to the primary and published sources in various collections that can be consulted by anyone wishing to undertake further research into the history of Apsley House and its contents.

Sources in The National Archives

CRES 2/632 Hyde Park, leases 1767–97

MPD 1/62 of Apsley House and stables, Piccadilly, survey and valuation signed by John Marquand and Thomas Leverton, 1796

CRES 2/1729 Hamilton Place, Hamilton Mews and Piccadilly, leases of land for erection of houses 1796–1809

CRES 2/635 Sale of Apsley House to the Duke of Wellington, 1829–40

IR 36/202 Duke of Wellington, war damage repairs

ED 136/565 Duke of Wellington’s offer to the government of part of Apsley House and the Wellington heirlooms

T 218/49 The Wellington Museum, 1945–59

WORK 17/464 Apsley House, Wellington Museum Act, 1947, 1948–62

Published sources

Bamford, F and the Duke of Wellington (eds) 1950. ‘The Journal of Mrs Arbuthnot 1820–32’, 2 vols, London

Brindle, S and Robinson, D 2001. ‘The Wellington Arch and the Marble Arch’, London, 2001

Brindle, S 2001. ‘The Wellington Arch and the western entrance to London’, Georgian Group Journal, 11, 47–92

Bryant, A 1971. ‘The Great Duke’, London

Bryant, J 2005. ‘Apsley House’, London: English Heritage guidebook

Bryant, J 2005. ‘How Canova and Wellington honoured Napoleon’, Apollo, CLXII (524), 38–43

Delaforce, A and Yorke, J, 1992. ‘Portugal’s silver service: a victory gift to the Duke of Wellington', London: V&A

Ford, R 1853. ‘Apsley House and Walmer Castle’, London

Guseva N and Sychov I 2001. ‘Diplomatic gifts from Tsar Nicholas I of Russia to the Duke of Wellington’, Apollo, CLIII (???), 34–40

Harris, E 2001. ‘Adam at No.1 London’, Country Life, 195 (1 November 2001), 98–101

Harris, E 2001. ‘The Genius of Robert Adam, His Interiors’, London: Yale University Press

Hibbert, C 1997. ‘Wellington: a Personal History’, London

Jenkins, S 2007. ‘Sir Thomas Lawrence and the Duke of Wellington: a portraitist and his sitter’, British Art Journal, VIII (1), 63–7

Jenkins, S 2008. ‘Sir Thomas Lawrence and the Duke of Wellington: a portraitist and his sitter’, in C Woolgar (ed), ‘Wellington Studies IV’, University of Southampton, 126–39

Jenkins, S 2008. ‘The ‘Spanish Gift’ at Apsley House’, English Heritage Historical Review, 2, 116–31

Jenkins, S 2009. ‘La conservación de la Aparición del Niño Jesús a San Antonio de Padua, de Anton Raphael Mengs (Apsley House)’, Reales Sitios, Revista de Patrimonio Nacional, 179, Jan-Mar 2009, 69–72

Jenkins, S 2010. ‘Arthur Wellesley, first Duke of Wellington, Apsley House and Canova’s Napoleon as Mars the Peacemaker’, Sculpture Journal 19 (1), 115–121

Jenkins, S 2010. ‘Buying Bonaparte’, Apollo, Vol (part), 50–5

Jenkins, S 2010. ‘After the Battle: diplomatic gifts of porcelain to the Duke of Wellington after 1815’, in V Pietsch and T Witting (eds) ‘Fascination of Fragility: Masterpieces of European Porcelain’, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, 351–5

Kauffmann, C revised by Jenkins S 2009. ‘Catalogue of paintings in the Wellington Museum’, London

Longford, E 1992. ‘Wellington’, London

Rutland, Belvoir Castle, Frances Lincoln, 20xx

Robinson, J M 1979. ‘The Wyatts: An Architectural Dynasty’, Oxford (revised addition forthcoming, Yale University Press)

Sutton, D 1973, ‘The Wellington Museum, Apsley House’, Apollo, 98 (September 1973)

Smith, E 1994. ‘Wellington and the Arbuthnots: A Triangular Friendship’, Stroud

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