Children's albums
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AFTER FRANZ XAVER WINTERHALTER (1805-73)
Painting of Queen Victoria with four eldest children
c. 1852Albumen print mounted on card | 13.9 x 13.9 cm (image, oval) | RCIN 2106392
Photograph of a painting of Queen Victoria with her four eldest children: Victoria, the Princess Royal, Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, Princess Alice and Prince Alfred. The group stand, facing towards the right. Queen Victoria holds an infant Prince Alfred.
The painting is held in the Royal Collection, RCIN 405293. The Queen asked Winterhalter to copy and arrange to her own design ‘my portrait with the 4 children’ from the central group in his painting of The Reception of Louis-Philippe, King of the French, at Windsor Castle, 8 October 1844 (RCIN 401378). She was pleased with the painting and noted in her Journal that it ‘looks quite lovely’.
The painting is held in the Royal Collection, RCIN 405293. The Queen asked Winterhalter to copy and arrange to her own design ‘my portrait with the 4 children’ from the central group in his painting of The Reception of Louis-Philippe, King of the French, at Windsor Castle, 8 October 1844 (RCIN 401378). She was pleased with the painting and noted in her Journal that it ‘looks quite lovely’.
Creator(s)
After Franz Xaver Winterhalter (1805-73) (artist)
Unknown Person (photographer)
Subject(s)
King Edward VII, King of the United Kingdom (1841-1910)Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom (1819-1901)Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh and Saxe-Coburg & Gotha (1844-1900)Princess Alice, Grand Duchess of Hesse & by Rhine (1843-78)Empress Friedrich, German Empress and Queen of Prussia (1840-1901)13.9 x 13.9 cm (image, oval)
- From the collection of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales
Subject(s)
- Arts, Recreation, Entertainment & Sport
- Art
- Paintings
- Art
Object type(s)
- visual works
- photographs
- prints
- Arts, Recreation, Entertainment & Sport
