Royal portraits painting

Princess Helena by Franz Xavier Winterhalter, 1861.

This painting is a copy of Winterhalter’s original portrait, painted in Paris in 1864. Graefle also copied its companion painting of the Emperor Maximilian, Princess Charlotte’s husband (RCIN 402484). Princess Charlotte (1840-1927) was the only daughter of Leopold I, King of the Belgians. She was lively and intelligent as a child and much loved by her English relations. She married the in 1857 and her husband was created Emperor of Mexico in 1864. He was executed there in 1867. Queen…

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Princess Helena (1846 - 1923) by Franz Xavier Winterhalter, 1861.

Victoria, Princess Royal by William Corden the Younger, 1851.

Wedding Day. Queen Victoria in a beautiful ivory and gold wedding dress, with a flower crown and a lace veil.

Emperor Wilhelm II, 1909-11. Though recently repaired, the portrait still shows the marks of five slashes apparently inflicted by Russian soldiers at the end of World War II. The first grandchild of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, "Willy" suffered a birth injury that permanently damaged his left arm; many believe his disability, and others' reaction to it, severely affected his psychology. He was further warped by his early indoctrination into the all-pervasive Prussian military milieu…

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Augusta Victoria of Hohenzollern, Queen of Portugal in exile. Philip de László, 1915.

A look at An Historian About Town's second Monarch of the Month: Queen Anne, for this year's Women's History Month and IWD!

“State portrait of Countess Katinka Kendeffy de Malomvíz Andrássy (Hungarian), ca. 1867. via muzeumhumenne, Budapest. ”

Right Honourable Arthur Oliver Villiers Russell (1869–1935), 2nd Baron Ampthill, GCSI, GCIE by Arthur Stockdale Cope (1857–1940), 1925, from Museum of Freemasonry

Jane Digby è una donna vissuta nell’Ottocento, dall’esistenza del tutto inconsueta rispetto alle sue contemporanee. Jane visse ascoltando unicamente le proprie passioni, senza compromessi e senza curarsi delle rigide regole perbeniste dell’epoca. In vita pagherà le sue scelte controcorrente con un’indelebile etichetta di immoralità e dissolutezza, che la spingerà verso l’Oriente. Nata il 3 aprile 1807 nel Dorset a Forston House, la tenuta del nonno materno, che diverrà Primo Conte di…