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Provenance: Painted for Queen Victoria, 1842: Inscriptions: Signed and dated: F Winterhalter 1842. Inscribed on the back with the names of the artist and sitter and the date, 1842. References: Royal Collection RCIN 403056: Source/Photographer: Franz Xaver Winterhalter and the Courts of Europe, 1830-70, Ormond, Richard and Blackett-Ord: Permission
Winterhalter not only painted the official portraits of the British royal house but also dedicated himself to producing private images, as is the case with this work that was commissioned as a surprise gift from Queen Victoria to her husband Prince Albert on the occasion of his twenty-fourth birthday. Albert well appreciated the portrait.
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Winterhalter was first brought to the attention of Queen Victoria by the Queen of the Belgians and subsequently painted numerous portraits at the English court from 1842 till his death. Princess Juliane was the third daughter of Francis, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld and the aunt of both Queen Victoria and Prince Albert.
Franz Xaver Winterhalter (20 April 1805 – 8 July 1873) was a German painter and lithographer, known for his flattering portraits of royalty and upper-class society in the mid-19th century.