A watercolour showing a distant landscape, possibly a view from Windsor Castle and possibly executed under the tutelage of WL Leitch or by Leitch himself. The foreground has been left unfinished, with a row of trees shown behind. Clouds are shown in the sky above. A single-pencil-line border is shown around the image and a possible autograph is shown to the lower centre.

From the age of eight Queen Victoria received regular lessons in drawing and watercolour from professional artists including Richard Westall (1765 – 1836) and Edward Lear (1812 – 88). However, it was the Scottish landscape painter William Leighton Leitch (1804 – 83) with whom she had the most enduring relationship, as he taught her for 22 years. Before teaching Queen Victoria, Leitch had established an impressive reputation as an art tutor, with his pupils including the Duchess of Buccleuch, the Duchess of Sutherland and Queen Victoria’s lady-in-waiting Charlotte Canning.