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 1854Carbon 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.
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)
Queen 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
- City of Westminster [London]
- London [Greater London]
- Greater London [England]
- England
- Great Britain
- Europe
Object type(s)
- visual works
- photographs
- albums
- photograph albums
- Places
