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Annie Dixon (1817-1901)
Princess Blanche d'Orléans (1857-1932) Signed and dated 1859
Watercolour on ivory laid on card | 4.7 x 4.5 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external) | RCIN 420351
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Miss Dixon's expenses reveal that the miniature was painted at Claremont, the house in Esher, Surrey, which had been granted to the exiled duc and duchesse de Nemours following the 1848 Revolution and where Princess Blanche had been born in October 1857.
Princesse Blanche d'Orléans was the fourth child of Louis, duc de Nemours, and Victoire, daughter of Duke Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. She died in Paris in 1932.
Signed, dated and inscribed on the reverse in ink: Princess Blanche / d'Orleans / Painted by A. Dixon / May 1859.
Provenance
Commissioned by Queen Victoria in 1859
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Medium and techniques
Watercolour on ivory laid on card
Measurements
4.7 x 4.5 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external)
5.9 x 5.6 cm (frame, external)
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Other number(s)
Vic Min : Remington, V., 2010. Victorian Miniatures in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen – Vic Min 240Cust 1910 : Cust, L., 1910. Windsor Castle: Portrait Miniatures, London – Cust 1910 28/10
