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John Simpson (1811-71)
Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (1824-1884) Signed and dated 1850
Enamel on gold | 4.9 x 3.9 cm (sight) | RCIN 421627
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After a portrait by Franz Xaver Winterhalter painted for Queen Victoria in July 1850 (405049). John Simpson's enamel copy was painted for Queen Victoria in 1850 and listed in her accounts: 'To Simpson for Enamels of Leopo[l]d & Grandmama Coburg £17.17.' (17 guineas) (RA VIC/ADDT/231/165).
John Simpson (1811-after 1871) was trained as a porcelain painter at the Derby porcelain factory before moving to London in 1845. He soon established a practice as a miniature painter specialising in works on enamel, and fulfilled the first of many commissions for Queen Victoria in that year. He is last recorded describing himself at the end of his career as a 'photographic artist' (1871 census return); the date of his death is not known.
Signed, dated and inscribed on the counter-enamel in red paint by the artist: Prince Leopold / of Saxe Cobourg and Gotha / born [… 31] 1824 / Simpson after F. Winterhalter / 1850.Provenance
Painted for Queen Victoria in 1850
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Enamel on gold
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4.9 x 3.9 cm (sight)
5.1 x 4.2 cm (frame, external)
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