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William Watson (active 1828-66)
Marie of Baden, Princess of Leiningen (1834-1899) Signed and dated 1858
Watercolour on ivory laid on card | 3.2 x 2.7 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external) | RCIN 420736
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A copy after Albert Graefle's (1807 – 89) marriage portrait of the Princess dating from 1858. The original was in the collection of the Prince of Leiningen; a later copy (1859) by William Corden is in the Royal Collection (405209). The Queen judged her nephew's new wife to be 'most attractive' (RA QVJ: 20 October 1858), a view widely shared. Lord Torrington, writing to John Thaddeus Delane the year after this miniature was painted, commented: 'The Princess Leiningen who is here (her husband a Captain in our navy) is a charming little woman in every sense. She makes me wish I was 20 and born with Serene before my name' (RA VIC/C 24/6, 14 December 1860).
Inscribed in ink on the reverse in Queen Victoria's hand: Marie / of Baden / Pcss Leining. / after / Grafle / 1858.Provenance
Commissioned by Queen Victoria
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Medium and techniques
Watercolour on ivory laid on card
Measurements
3.2 x 2.7 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external)
4.2 x 3.1 cm (frame, external)
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Vic Min : Remington, V., 2010. Victorian Miniatures in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen – Vic Min 903Cust 1910 : Cust, L., 1910. Windsor Castle: Portrait Miniatures, London – Cust 1910 52/15
