Not on display

Prince Albert

Plaque
1870, ca. 1870
Artist/Maker
Minton (maker)
South Kensington Porcelain Class (painters (artists))
Moody, Francis Wollaston (teachers)
Place of origin
Stoke-on-Trent (made)
London (painted (images))

Oval porcelain plaque painted with a portrait of Prince Albert, after the picture by Winterhalter painted in 1846. The Prince is depicted wearing a dark brown coat or robe, with a white waistcoat, a white cravat, a greenish blue ribbon across his breast on which he wears the star of an order and a bright red necktie.

Object details

Category
ELISE
Object type
Plaque
TitlePrince Albert
Materials and techniques
Porcelain, with painted decoration
Porcelain
Painting (Image-Making)
Brief description
Oval porcelain plaque painted with a portrait of Prince Albert, after the picture by Winterhalter painted in 1846. English, 1870. The plaque was made by Minton & Co. and decorated by the students of the South Kensington Porcelain Class.
Physical description
Oval porcelain plaque painted with a portrait of Prince Albert, after the picture by Winterhalter painted in 1846. The Prince is depicted wearing a dark brown coat or robe, with a white waistcoat, a white cravat, a greenish blue ribbon across his breast on which he wears the star of an order and a bright red necktie.
Dimensions
  • Height: 58.5cm
  • Width: 50.0cm
Gallery label
Like many portraits of Albert, this potrait of the late Prince Consort is based on the painting by Winterhalter painted in 1846. All these are half-length portraits showing the Prince in profile, but they differ in the style and formality of his dress. Executed by the female students of the Porcelain Class at South Kensington, under the direction of Francis Wollaston Thomas Moody (1824-86), this portrait may possibly have been intended for insertion in one of the galleries being built in the Museum at this time. The students of the South Kensington Porcelain Class, which was supplied with blanks by Minton & Co., painted the Minton tiles which decorate the Grill Room (part of the V&A cafe) designed by Sir Edward James Poynter (1836-1919). Porcelain classes, where porcelain blanks were painted with glaze decoration, became very popular for middle and upper class women during this period, and the trend continued into the early twentieth century.
Production
The plaque, supplied by Minton & Co., was painted by the female students of the South Kensington Porcelain Class, under the direction of F.W. Moody.
Subject depicted
Albert (Prince Consort, Consort of Queen Victoria)
Association
Albert (Prince Consort, Consort of Queen Victoria)
Bibliographic reference
Lovett, Gina.The Perfect Place to Grow: 175 Years of the Royal College of Art. London: Royal College of Art, 2012. ISBN978-1-907342-51-6
Collection
Ceramics Collection
Accession number
320-1872

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Record createdJune 23, 1998
Record URL
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