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Portraiture

Prince Albert was an early adopter of portrait photography

AFTER BRYAN EDWARD DUPPA (1804-66)

Queen Victoria (1819-1901)

1889 copy after an original of 5 Jul 1854

Carbon print | 21.8 x 16.6 cm (image) | RCIN 2906533

Photograph showing a three-quarters length right profile portrait of a seated Queen Victoria. She rests a photographic portrait of Prince Albert on her lap. Photograph taken at Buckingham Palace.

In July 1854, Queen Victoria commissioned Bryan Edward Duppa to take a photograph of her, as a surprise for her husband. The portrait shows the Queen holding a framed copy of a portrait of Prince Albert taken by the same photographer a few months earlier.

  • Creator(s)

    After Bryan Edward Duppa (1804-66) (photographer)

    Gustav William Henry Mullins (1854-1921) (photographer)

    Subject(s)

    Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom (1819-1901)
    Prince Albert, Prince Consort (1819-61)
  • annotation: The Queen/ Buckingham Palace/ July 13 1854/ by Mr Dupper [beneath work]

    annotation: Reproduced & Printed in carbon by Mullins 1889 [mount, lower left and lower right]

  • 21.8 x 16.6 cm (image)

    28.2 x 22.9 cm (page dimensions)

  • Queen Victoria, Buckingham Palace, 13 July 1854.[Photographic Portraits Vol.1/59 1853-1857]

  • Commissioned by Queen Victoria

  • Subject(s)
    • Places
      • Europe
        • Great Britain
          • England
            • Greater London [England]
              • London [Greater London]
                • City of Westminster [London]
                  • Buckingham Palace
    Object type(s)
      • visual works
        • photographs
        • albums
          • photograph albums