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William Corden the Younger (1819-1900)
Princess Helena (1846-1923) Inscribed 1864
Oil on canvas | 41.4 x 31.3 x 2.0 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external) | RCIN 407265
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This is a copy by William Corden (1819-1900) of the portrait of Princess Helena by Albert Graefle (RCIN 403988). The original was painted for Princess Helena as a birthday present for Queen Victoria on 24 May 1864. 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, two years after this portrait was painted, 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 'Lenchen's picture by Graefle, is extremely good & pretty'.
Inscribed on the back as copied by Corden in 1864.Provenance
Painted for King Edward VII when Prince of Wales
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Oil on canvas
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41.4 x 31.3 x 2.0 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external)
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Princess Helena (1846-1923), later Princess Christian of Schleswig-Holstein
