'Queen Victoria (1819-1901)'

Glass plate negative of a portrait painting of Queen Victoria (RCIN 403884), created by Albert Graefle in 1864. The queen is dressed in mourning. On the table next to her is a box of Foreign Office papers and a bust of Prince Albert by William Theed which is still in the Royal Collection. Albert had died in 1861. When the Queen was sitting for her portrait she wrote in her Journal that Graefle was ‘such a clever painter & paints so fresh and cleanly. His likenesses are also very good’.

The glass plate negative has been photographed showing the coated side and therefore the image appears laterally reversed. Prints from this negative do not seem to exist in the Collection.