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Sir Edwin Landseer (1802-73)
Queen Victoria (1819-1901) in Fancy Dress 1845
Oil on panel | 43.2 x 31.8 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external) | RCIN 404879
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The Queen is wearing eighteenth-century dress (with the ribbon and star of the Garter), her hair powdered and crowned with a diadem and a fan in her right hand. On 6 June 1845 a masked ball was held at Buckingham Palace and the Queen had recorded in her Journal that she had herself ‘coiffée [her hair styled] like the other day, with powder…with a diadem…I had myself sketched by 2 painters’. Inscribed on the back with the names of the artist and sitter and the date, 4 June 1845.
Provenance
Painted for Queen Victoria; recorded in the Queen's Private Apartments at Buckingham Palace in 1868
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Medium and techniques
Oil on panel
Measurements
43.2 x 31.8 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external)
55.3 x 44.9 x 6.4 cm (frame, external)
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Alternative title(s)
Queen Victoria dressed for the Bal Masqué, 4 June 1845.
