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Edward Tayler (1828-1906)
Princess Albertine Victoria of Leiningen (1863-1901) Signed and dated 1864
Watercolour on ivory laid on card | 6.8 x 5.5 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external) | RCIN 420732
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Painted at Osborne House in the summer of 1864. On 1 June 1864 Queen Victoria wrote to Leopold I, King of the Belgians: 'Dear sweet Marie Leiningen is here with her magnificent Child' (RA VIC/ADDY/112/2).
Princess Albertine Victoria of Leiningen, daughter of Ernest, Prince of Leiningen, Queen Victoria's half-nephew, and of Marie, daughter of Leopold, Grand Duke of Baden. Queen Victoria was very fond of the Princess's mother and was in attendance on the Princess of Leiningen during the birth of Princess Albertine Victoria at Osborne House on 23 July 1863. She was diagnosed with 'Bright's disease' in 1875 and suffered chronic ill health from this form of kidney disease until her death at Waldleiningen in 1901.
Signed and dated on the reverse in ink: Painted / by / Edw. Tayler / 1864Provenance
Painted for Queen Victoria in 1864
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Watercolour on ivory laid on card
Measurements
6.8 x 5.5 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external)
7.8 x 7.0 cm (frame, external)
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Vic Min : Remington, V., 2010. Victorian Miniatures in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen – Vic Min 876Cust 1910 : Cust, L., 1910. Windsor Castle: Portrait Miniatures, London – Cust 1910 52/10
