A watercolour view of Osborne House, showing the appearance of house from the side just before the addition of the new wing containing the Durbar Room. Signed, dated and inscribed at bottom right: Osborne / G. Seckendorff / 1887.

Count von Seckendorff was a German diplomat and courtier and a keen amateur artist who exhibited as an honorary member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours between 1887 and 1893. He served as Court Chamberlain to Victoria, Crown Princess of Prussia, who was Queen Victoria and Prince Albert's eldest child. Seckendorff accompanied the Crown Prince and Princess to England for Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee in 1887 and stayed with the royal party at Osborne that July, when he presumably painted this watercolour.