Prince Albert (1819-61)

Photograph of a full length portrait of Prince Albert (1819-61) standing, facing right, his face captured in profile. He looks downwards. He places his left hand on a wooden bench beside him and holds a glove and top hat in his right hand. He is depicted leaning against a stone wall. There is a lush garden in the background. The photograph is hand-coloured with paint and the surroundings have been invented.

This may be the picture placed in a frame on a sideboard in Prince Albert's Dressing and Writing Room, Osborne House, as seen in another photograph, RCIN 2102641 (and other copies). The photographer may be Frances Sally Day who took the original photograph, taken with Queen Victoria (see RCIN 2105655, for example) and later a 'new' picture worked up which included the rustic bench and scenery, hand-coloured by an unknown artist. Interestingly there is a monogram on the wall beside the Prince which could read EHC in reverse. There is a similar variation of this, RCIN 605883, said to have been coloured by EH Corbould, with slightly different foliage on the left.