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The Princess Royal

Oil Painting
1841 (painted)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Oil on canvas laid on millboard depicting a circular portrait of the infant Empress Frederick of Germany

Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleThe Princess Royal (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Oil on canvas laid on millboard
Brief description
Oil painting of an infant entitled 'The Princess Royal' (Empress Frederick of Germany 1840-1901) by Charles Robert Leslie. Great Britain, 1841.
Physical description
Oil on canvas laid on millboard depicting a circular portrait of the infant Empress Frederick of Germany
Dimensions
  • Estimate diameter: 8.9cm
Dimensions taken from Catalogue of British Oil Paintings 1820-1860, Ronald Parkinson, Victoria and Albert Museum, London: HMSO, 1990
Styles
Marks and inscriptions
'H.R.H The Princess/Royal/painted by C R Leslie/Feby 20th 1841' (Inscribed in ink, probably by the artist, on a label stuck on the reverse)
Credit line
Given by John Sheepshanks, 1857
Object history
Given by John Sheepshanks, 1857
Subjects depicted
Bibliographic reference
Catalogue of British Oil Paintings 1820-1860, Ronald Parkinson, Victoria and Albert Museum, London: HMSO, 1990, p. 172
Collection
Accession number
FA.126[O]

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Record createdApril 24, 2007
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