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Carl Haag (1820-1915)
The Queen's pony, Craig Liath
35.0 x 50.0 cm (whole object) | RCIN 920753
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DM 2268: the Queen's grey pony with a gillie, sketched in sepia, at its head. Study for Morning in the Highlands 922032, in which the gillie does not appear, the pony is in movement & the Queen's dress obscures the saddle.
Carl Haag was born in Bavaria and visited London in 1847 to learn more about English watercolour painting technique, studying at the Royal Academy Schools the following year and settling in England. On a sketching trip in the Tyrol in 1852 he had a chance encounter with Charles, Prince of Leiningen (Queen Victoria’s half-brother) and Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (Prince Albert’s brother), who jointly commissioned Haag to paint them in an Alpine setting as a Christmas present for Queen Victoria (see RCIN 917108). Victoria and Albert, impressed with the double portrait, then invited the artist to their residence in the Scottish Highlands, Balmoral Castle, the following autumn, to paint scenes of their lives there. His association with the British court endured for a time after Albert's death in 1861, and there is a significant corpus of watercolours by him in the Royal Collection (including several Egyptian subjects, as Haag spent two years in Egypt and the Near East in 1858-60 and travelled again to Egypt 1873-4). -
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35.0 x 50.0 cm (whole object)
Other number(s)
RL 20753
