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Portrait of Prince Albert is an 1859 portrait painting by the German artist Franz Xaver Winterhalter depicting Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, the husband of Queen Victoria and Prince Consort of the United Kingdom. [1] [2] It was the last of several portraits Winterhalter painted of Albert before the prince's death in 1860.
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
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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.
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.
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It was then kept in the Tuileries Palace and it was probably lost during the fire of 1871. This painting is one of the several copies painted by Winterhalter's atelier and other artists over the course of the Second Empire. Mary Curtis was commissioned to copy it in December 1855 for Queen Victoria.