Children's albums
Children's albums
'The Queen, Princess Royal, Prince of Wales, Princess Alice and Prince Alfred'
circa 1857Salted paper print | 13.9 x 13.3 cm (image, oval) | RCIN 2917869
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’.
Creator(s)
After Franz Xaver Winterhalter (1805-73) (artist)
Unknown (photographer)
13.9 x 13.3 cm (image, oval)
From an album compiled by Princess Helena
