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John Simpson (1811-71)
Enamel on copper | 2.4 x 2.4 cm (frame, external) | RCIN 422213
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After an oil portrait by Franz Xaver Winterhalter dating from 1851 (present location unknown). A copy in oils painted by Queen Victoria herself is in the Royal Collection (403613).
Princess Amalie of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, younger daughter of Prince Augustus of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, and Clémentine, princesse d'Orléans, married, in 1875, Duke Maximilian of Bavaria, fourth son of Maximilian Joseph, Duke of Bavaria, by whom she had three sons.
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: Princess Amelie / of Saxe Coburg and Gotha / b. Oct r 23 18[48] / Simpson after Winterhalter / 1851.Provenance
Commissioned by Queen Victoria in 1851
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Enamel on copper
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2.4 x 2.4 cm (frame, external)
2.0 x 2.0 cm (sight)
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