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Memorial works

Following Albert’s premature death, Victoria commissioned the creation of photographs and decorative objects that memorialised her beloved husband

    WILLIAM BAMBRIDGE (1819-79)

    The royal children in mourning

    Mar 1862

    Albumen print | 16.5 x 13.4 cm (image) | RCIN 2900547

    Photograph of Queen Victoria's and Prince Albert's daughters grouped around a bust of their father: Princess Louise, standing; Princess Alice, seated in front of Louise and looking down at Princess Beatrice who sits in front of her; to right the Princess Royal and Princess Helena kneel on floor and look at book on table.
    • Creator(s)

      William Bambridge (1819-79) (photographer)

      Subject(s)

      Empress Friedrich, German Empress and Queen of Prussia (1840-1901)
      Princess Alice, Grand Duchess of Hesse & by Rhine (1843-78)
      Princess Helena (1846-1923)
      Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll (1848-1939)
      Beatrice, Princess Henry of Battenberg (1857-1944)
      Prince Albert, Prince Consort (1819-61)
    • 16.5 x 13.4 cm (image)

      31.0 x 24.7 cm (page dimensions)

    • Group photograph, Windsor Castle, 1862 [in Portraits of Royal Children Vol.6 1862-1863]

    • Acquired by Queen Victoria

    • Subject(s)
      • Social sciences
        • Ethnology
          • Mourning
      • Places
        • Europe
          • Great Britain
            • England
              • Berkshire [England]
                • Windsor [Berkshire]
                  • Windsor Castle
                    • Interiors of Windsor Castle
      Object type(s)
        • visual works
          • photographs