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Anna Sophia, Duchess of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (1700-1780) c.1740-59
Oil on canvas | 82.8 x 65.7 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external) | RCIN 403530
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The sitter was born Anna Sophia, Princess of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt; in January 1723 she married Francis Josias, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (1697-1764). She was great-great-grandmother to both Queen Victoria and Prince Albert.
The portrait can be compared with a three-quarter-length in the Veste Coburg (M. 075). A portrait of her husband, traditionally ascribed to AG Meuser (fl. 1750s), is in the Royal Collection (RCIN 406425).
She wear a silk brocade gown with ermine robes, her hair is in the tete de mouton style, close-curled to the head, powdered and bejewelled. The ducal crown is to the left.
Provenance
First recorded in Buckingham Palace in 1875
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Medium and techniques
Oil on canvas
Measurements
82.8 x 65.7 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external)
96.2 x 80.7 x 4.7 cm (frame, external)
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Alternative title(s)
Anna Sophia, Princess of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, wife of Francis Josias, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (1700-1780)
