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Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom (1819-1901)
Princess Helena (1846-1923) Signed and dated 1851
Oil on canvas | 40.1 x 34.5 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external) | RCIN 403612
Prince Consort's Bathroom, Osborne House
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Princess Helena (1846-1923), nicknamed Lenchen, was the fifth child and third daughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. She was lively, outspoken and something of a tomboy. In 1866 she married Prince Christian of Schleswig Holstein and in 1916 they celebrated their Golden Wedding anniversary; she was the only child of Queen Victoria to do so. Queen Victoria recorded in her Journal that she began to paint Lenchen on 19 August 1851 and worked on the painting for the next three days. Prince Albert declared it an excellent likeness. The following Spring Winterhalter gave the Queen another lesson and she ‘painted Lenchen’s profile and improved it’. Signed and dated: VR [in monogram] Aug: 1851.
Provenance
First recorded in the Queen's Private Apartments at Buckingham Palace in 1876
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Medium and techniques
Oil on canvas
Measurements
40.1 x 34.5 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external)
56.0 x 51.0 x 6.0 cm (frame, external)
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Princess Helena (1846-1923) when young
Princess Helena (1846-1923), later Princess Friedrich Christian of Schleswig-Holstein
