Portrait of Thomas Picton
Artist	William Beechey
Year	c.1815
Type	Oil on canvas, portrait
Dimensions	77 cm × 63.7 cm (30 in × 25.1 in)
Location	National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.

Portrait of Thomas Picton is a c.1815 portrait painting by William Beechey of the Welsh general Thomas Picton.^[1] Picton served during the Peninsular War in Portugal and Spain. He was the highest-ranking British Army officer to die at the Battle of Waterloo, the final Allied victory over Napoleon that ended the Napoleonic Wars.^[2]

Several versions of the painting exist with one at Apsley House, the home of Picton's long-standing commander the Duke of Wellington.^[3] The copy in the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. was acquired in 1961.^[4]

Picton had previously been painted by the Irish artist Martin Archer Shee in 1812, which is now in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery in London.

• Picton Monument, Carmarthen, a memorial to Picton in Wales

• Hayes, John T. British Paintings in the National Gallery of Art. Cambridge University Press, 1992.
• Reynolds, Luke. Who Owned Waterloo?: Battle, Memory, and Myth in British History, 1815–1852. Oxford University Press, 2022.

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