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  3. Cultural depictions of Queen Victoria - Wikipedia

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    In 1937 Lord Chamberlain the Earl of Cromer ruled that no British sovereign may be portrayed on the British stage until 100 years after his or her accession. For this reason, Laurence Housman's play Victoria Regina (1935), which had earlier appeared at the Gate Theatre Studio in London with Pamela Stanley in the title role, could not have its British premiere until the centenary of Queen ...

  4. Victorian painting - Wikipedia

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    Victorian painting refers to the distinctive styles of painting in the United Kingdom during the reign of Queen Victoria (1837–1901). Victoria's early reign was characterised by rapid industrial development and social and political change, which made the United Kingdom one of the most powerful and advanced nations in the world.

  5. Queen Victoria drawing and flight system among over 1,700 ...

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    Between 2007 and 2022, a drawing of Queen Victoria from 1869, a mid-19th Century engraving of King John granting the Magna Carta, a bronze sculpture of painter Thomas Stothard and a 1947 negative ...

  6. Queen Victoria - Wikipedia

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    By 1836, Victoria's maternal uncle Leopold, who had been King of the Belgians since 1831, hoped to marry her to Prince Albert, [23] the son of his brother Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. Leopold arranged for Victoria's mother to invite her Coburg relatives to visit her in May 1836, with the purpose of introducing Victoria to Albert. [24]

  7. Queen Victoria Riding Out - Wikipedia

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    Queen Victoria Riding Out is an 1840 painting by the British artist Francis Grant. [1] It depicts Queen Victoria riding out on her horse Comus in Windsor Great Park. Next to her is the Prime Minister Lord Melbourne while her dogs Dash and Islay run out in front. Riding behind her is Lord Conyingham the Lord Chamberlain, who is raising his hat.

  8. Statue of Queen Victoria, Kensington Palace - Wikipedia

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    The completed sculpture was unveiled by Queen Victoria on 28 June 1893. The statue suffered bomb damage during the Second World War, with shrapnel removing its nose in 1945. The damaged nose was replaced before the accession of Queen Elizabeth II in 1952, and the nose was replaced a second time for the Golden Jubilee of Elizabeth II in 2002.

  9. Edmund Thomas Parris - Wikipedia

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    On Queen Victoria's first state visit to Drury Lane Theatre in November 1837, Parris, from a seat in the orchestra, made a sketch of her as she stood in her box, and from this painted a portrait, of which an engraving, by Charles Edward Wagstaff, was published by Hodgson & Graves in the following April. In 1838 he was commissioned by the same ...