Portraiture
Prince Albert was an early adopter of portrait photography
AFTER ANTOINE FRANÇOIS JEAN CLAUDET (1797-1867)
Albert Edward, Prince of Wales and Princess Alice at Gloucester House
c.1880 after an original of Jul1856Carbon print | 10.9 x 9.0 cm (image) | RCIN 2900077
Photograph of a full length double portrait of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, later King Edward VII (1841-1910) and Princess Alice, later Grand Duchess of Hesse and by Rhine (1843-78). The brother and sister stand arm in arm facing towards the camera. Photograph taken inside Gloucester House.
Photograph from a daguerreotype by Antoine François Jean Claudet.
Photograph from a daguerreotype by Antoine François Jean Claudet.
Creator(s)
After Antoine François Jean Claudet (1797-1867) (photographer)
Prince of Wales & Princess Alice./ Gloucester House. / July: 1856./ From a daguerreotype by Claudet.
10.9 x 9.0 cm (image)
31.0 x 24.7 cm (whole object)
- Acquired by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert
Subject(s)
- Places
- Europe
- Great Britain
- England
- Greater London [England]
- London [Greater London]
- City of Westminster
- Piccadilly [London]
- Gloucester House [London]
- Piccadilly [London]
- City of Westminster
- London [Greater London]
- Greater London [England]
- England
- Great Britain
- Europe
- Places