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Sir William Beechey (1753-1839)
Princess Amelia (1783-1810) Exhibited 1797
Oil on canvas | 91.6 x 71.1 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external) | RCIN 403414
Crimson Drawing Room, Windsor Castle
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In 1800 Beechey submitted an account to George IV for six portraits of his sisters - Princess Elizabeth (RCIN 403412), Charlotte, Princess Royal (RCIN 403513), this portrait of Princess Amelia, Princess Mary (RCIN 403415) Princess Augusta (RCIN 403416) and Princess Sophia (RCIN 403417) - at forty guineas each.
All six portraits seem intended as intimate and affectionate studies of the Princesses as sensitive and accomplished young ladies for their devoted brother, George IV. Though two of the elder sisters are shown dressed in coloured silks, all three youngest sisters appear as here in virginal white. Beechey had been employed to teach drawing to the elder unmarried Princesses, Augusta and Elizabeth, so it is not surprising that Amelia is here shown with a folder of drawings. Beechey may have been eager to pitch for another Royal pupil.Provenance
Painted for George IV; recorded (with the rest of the set except for RCIN 403413) in the South Anti Room at Carlton House in 1816 and 1819 (no 41), where it appears as an overdoor in Pyne's illustrated 'Royal Residences' of 1819 (RCIN 922182 & RCIN 922183). All six needed restoring by Beechey in 1829.
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Oil on canvas
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91.6 x 71.1 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external)
116.2 x 89.2 x 6.0 cm (frame, external)
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Princess Amelia, daughter of George III (1783-1810)
