A watercolour showing the interior of a bedroom upholstered in blue at Windsor Castle looking into the room from the window; two beds are on the right with cross shaped wreathes of flowers on them, a fireplace on the left, and painted ceiling above. Signed with initials and dated at bottom left corner: WC 1868. Inscription on verso.

The Blue Room at Windsor Castle, where Prince Albert spent his final days, was carefully preserved after his death. It was not kept, the Queen insisted, as ‘a Sterbe-Zimmer [death room] – but as a living beautiful monument’. She commissioned Ludwig Gruner to decorate the ceiling and she had a memorial bust of the Prince, carved by William Theed, placed between the beds. Courbould's memorial picture of Prince Albert in armour (RCIN 927595) can be seen inset into the door on the left.