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Franz Xaver Winterhalter (1805-73)
Queen Victoria (1819-1901) with her Four Eldest Children Signed and dated 1845
Oil on canvas | 68.5 x 69.0 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external) | RCIN 405293
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Winterhalter was born in the Black Forest where he was encouraged to draw at school. In 1818 he went to Freiburg to study under Karl Ludwig Schüler and then moved to Munich in 1823, where he attended the Academy and studied under Josef Stieler, a fashionable portrait painter. Winterhalter was first brought to the attention of Queen Victoria by the Queen of the Belgians and subsequently painted numerous portraits at the English court from 1842 till his death. The Queen asked Winterhalter to copy and arrange to her own design ‘my portrait with the 4 children’ from the central group in his painting of The Reception of Louis-Philippe, King of the French, at Windsor Castle, 8 October 1844 (RCIN 401378). She was pleased with the painting and noted in her Journal that it ‘looks quite lovely’. Signed and dated: F Winterhalter / 1845
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Painted for Queen Victoria; recorded in the Queen's Private Apartments at Buckingham Palace in 1868
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Oil on canvas
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68.5 x 69.0 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external)
85.0 x 85.0 x 10.5 cm (frame, external)
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Queen Victoria (1819-1901) with Victoria, Princess Royal (1840-1901), Albert Edward, Prince of Wales (1841-1910), Princess Alice (1843-1878) & Prince Alfred (1844-1900).
