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Friedrich Wilhelm Keyl (1823-71)
April: Lambs in the Home Park at Windsor Signed and dated 1868
Oil on canvas | 30.5 x 49.0 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external) | RCIN 407558
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Keyl reported in a letter that he had learned from Sir Edwin Landseer that 'The Queen was quite delighted with my Lambs brought them herself with her own hands into his bedroom – thought it quite Preraphaelite'.
Signed and dated: F.W. Keyl / 1868.Provenance
Given to Queen Victoria on her birthday by Prince and Princess Christian of Schleswig-Holstein in 1868; recorded hanging in the Queen's Bedroom at Windsor Castle in 1878
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Medium and techniques
Oil on canvas
Measurements
30.5 x 49.0 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external)
55.3 x 71.6 cm (frame, external)
