The Prince Regent commissioned a bust of Prince Blücher, one of the heroes of the defeat of Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo, from the sculptor Peter Turnerelli, who was able to capture a likeness of the subject during the visit of the Allied sovereigns to London in June 1814. As the most celebrated of the Allied generals next to Wellington, Blücher's presence in London was greeted with an outpouring of public adulation which saw his temporary lodgings at Saint James's Palace besieged by eager well-wishers and his carriage drawn along the street by the adoring throng. Turnerelli's completed marble bust of Blücher is in the Royal Collection. The plaster version acquired by Soane is almost certainly the bust exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts in 1815.