Portraiture
Prince Albert was an early adopter of portrait photography
BRITISH SCHOOL, 19TH CENTURY
Princess Beatrice (1857-1944)
c. 1857Watercolour 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)
- Humans
- Mammals
- Animals
- Zoology