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James Sant (1820-1916)
Prince Ernest of Hesse (1868-1937) Before Dec 1872
Oil on canvas | 45.5 x 40.5 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external) | RCIN 400773
James Sant (1820-1916)
Prince Ernest of Hesse (1868-1937) Before Dec 1872
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Prince Ernest (1868-1937) is wearing Royal Stewart tartan. His mother was Queen Victoria’s daughter Alice and his father Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse. The family was in England at the end of 1871. Queen Victoria noted that Sant had painted a ‘most lovely head of little Ernie’ partly from a photograph. Inscribed on the back with the name of the sitter.
Provenance
Painted for Queen Victoria; recorded at Windsor Castle in 1878
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Creator(s)
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Medium and techniques
Oil on canvas
Measurements
45.5 x 40.5 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external)
59.2 x 54.2 x 5.0 cm (frame, external)
Other number(s)
Alternative title(s)
Prince Ernest Louis of Hesse (1868-1937)
Prince Ernst Ludwig of Hesse (1868-1937)
Prince Ernest Louis of Hesse (1868-1937), later Grand Duke of Hesse
Prince Ernst Ludwig of Hesse (1868-1937), later Grand Duke of Hesse
