Queen Victoria (1819-1901) as a Child with her Mother Maria Louisa Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfield, Duchess of Kent (1786-1861)
after Sir William Beechey (Burford 1753 - Hampstead 1839)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1830 - 1869
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1422 x 1105 mm (56 x 43 1/2 in)
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Belton House, Lincolnshire
NT 436114
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Queen Victoria (1819-1901) as a Child with her Mother, Maria Louisa Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfield, Duchess of Kent (1786-1861), after Sir William Beechey RA (Burford 1753 – Hampstead 1839), mid 19th century. Queen Victoria as a child, being held by her mother, who is seated on a red sofa in an interior. The original of mother and daughter was painted in 1821 and is in the Royal Collection.
Provenance
Purchased with a grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund (NHMF) from Edward John Peregrine Cust, 7th Baron Brownlow, C. St J. (b.1936) in 1984
Credit line
Belton House, The Brownlow Collection (acquired with the help of the National Heritage Memorial Fund by the National Trust in 1984)
Makers and roles
after Sir William Beechey (Burford 1753 - Hampstead 1839), artist previously catalogued as attributed to Carl Fredrik von Breda (Stockholm 1759 - Stockholm 1818), artist