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Portraiture

Prince Albert was an early adopter of portrait photography

    BRITISH SCHOOL, 19TH CENTURY

    Princess Beatrice (1857-1944)

    c. 1857

    Watercolour over photograph on card | 3.7 cm (Diameter) (support, diameter) | RCIN 420315

    Princess Beatrice is depicted as an infant, swathed in a pink shawl, in this hand-coloured photograph. The original by Leonida Caldesi shows the Princess in the arms of her nurse, Mrs Hughes, on 26 June 1857 (RCIN 2900104).

    • Creator(s)

      British School, 19th century (artist)

      After Leonida Caldesi (1823-91) (photographer)

      H J Hatfield & Sons (framemaker)

    • 3.7 cm (Diameter) (support, diameter)

      4.8 cm (frame diameter)

      3.5 cm (sight diameter)

    • Princess Beatrice (1857-1944), later Princess Henry of Battenburg

    • First recorded in the Royal Collection during the reign of King Edward VII

    • Subject(s)
      • Children
      • Natural Sciences & Mathematics
        • Zoology
          • Animals
            • Mammals
              • Humans
                • Babies (human)
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