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Victoria, Duchess of Kent with Princess Victoria is an 1821 portrait painting by the British artist William Beechey of Victoria, Duchess of Kent and her young daughter the future Queen Victoria. [1] It was painted at Kensington Palace in London and completed the following year. It was exhibited at the Royal Academy in May 1822. [2]
It depicts the wedding of Victoria, Princess Royal and Prince Frederick of Prussia in the Chapel Royal of St. James's Palace on 25 January 1858. [2] Victoria was the eldest child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert and was briefly heir presumptive before the birth of her brother Edward, Prince of Wales.
Victoria wrote in her journal on 26 August 1843: "I felt so happy and proud to have found something that gave him so much pleasure". The painting was hung in Prince Albert's despatch room at Windsor Castle. [1] The painting is of small dimensions and depicts the queen in an intimate moment, in a minimally painted white ruffled dress.
The Marriage of Queen Victoria is an 1842 painting by the British artist George Hayter. It depicts the wedding between Queen Victoria , reigning monarch of the United Kingdom, and her prince consort Albert on 10 February 1840 at the Chapel Royal in St James's Palace in London .
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.
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A Private View at the Royal Academy, 1881 is a painting by the English artist William Powell Frith exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts in London in 1883. It depicts a group of distinguished Victorians visiting the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in 1881, just after the death of the Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli, whose portrait (visible in the archway at the back of the room) by John ...
The First Council of Queen Victoria is an 1838 history painting by the Scottish artist David Wilkie. [1] It depicts the first meeting of the Privy Council following the succession of Queen Victoria to the throne following the death of her uncle William IV .