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Sir George Hayter (1792-1871)
Queen Victoria (1819-1901) when Princess Signed and dated 1832
Oil on canvas board | 44.7 x 31.0 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external) | RCIN 400569
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This painting is a sketch for a portrait painted for Leopold I, King of the Belgians. The Princess is in evening dress, holding a rose, near a table with books and a globe. At her feet is a spaniel, probably Dash, whose epitaph read: ‘His attachment was without selfishness, His playfulness without malice, His fidelity without deceit. READER, if you would live beloved and die regretted, profit by the example of DASH’. In the finished painting the view in the distance is Windsor Castle. The Princess recorded many sittings in 1833 between 29 January and 22 March and she wrote to her half-sister, Princess Feodora, on 1 March 1833 that Hayter was ‘painting me in oils, the size of life’. The finished portrait was shown at the Royal Academy in 1833. Signed and dated: Sketch / G.Hayter 1832. Inscribed on the back by the artist: 'Original sketch for my first portrait / of Her Majesty, when Princess Victoria 1833. / painted for His Majesty / The King of The Belgians / George Hayter.'
Provenance
Among the pictures purchased by the Privy Purse and the Lord Chamberlain’s Department at Hayter’s sale, Christie’s, 19-21 April 1871; recorded in store at Windsor Castle in 1879
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Oil on canvas board
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44.7 x 31.0 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external)
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Queen Victoria as a girl
H.R.H. Princess Victoria, afterwards H.M. Queen Victoria
