Queen Victoria with Prince Albert & the Prince of Wales

Franz Xaver Winterhalter (1806 - 1873)

Woven silk

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  • About the work
    Location
    Country: France
    City: Paris
    Place: British Embassy


  • About the artist
    Franz Xaver Winterhalter was one of Queen Victoria’s favourite artists. Born in Menzenschwand, Germany, he settled in Paris in 1834. He was introduced to Queen Victoria by her uncle, Leopold King of the Belgians. Between 1843 and 1871, Winterhalter carried out a vast number of royal commissions in England, spending six to seven weeks there each summer, where he painted chiefly at Windsor Castle and Buckingham Palace. Winterhalter left Paris to live in Karlsruhe in 1871. Two years later, news of his death in Frankfurt, the result of typhus, reached Queen Victoria. ‘With all his peculiarities,’ she wrote to her eldest daughter, ‘I liked him so much’.
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    Victoria (1819 - 1901), Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha) Albert (1819 - 1861), Edward VII (1844 - 1910)
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  • Details
    Artist
    Franz Xaver Winterhalter (1806 - 1873)
    Title
    Queen Victoria with Prince Albert & the Prince of Wales
    Date
    Medium
    Woven silk
    Dimensions
    height: 106.50 cm, width: 80.00 cm
    Acquisition
    Presented by Charles Hervey, November 1945
    GAC number
    14500