Prince Albert Edward, Prince of Wales later King Edward VII (1841–1910) leaving the Brighton Pavilion on the occasion of its opening in 1880.
Major John E. Chapman Matthews (1842 - 1927)
Category
Art / Prints
Date
Unknown
Materials
Glass, Paper, Wood
Measurements
314 x 226 mm
Order this imageCollection
Lanhydrock, Cornwall
NT 884979.2
Summary
Print, Prince Albert Edward, Prince of Wales later King Edward VII (1841–1910) leaving the Brighton Pavilion on the occasion of its opening in 1880 by Major John E. Chapman Matthews (1842 - 1927). Key to the large framed oil painting of HRH Albert Edward, Prince of Wales leaving the Brighton Pavilion on the occasion of its opening in 1880. LAN.P.89. HRH Albert Edward, Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII), in a carriage procession at Brighton by Major John E. Chapman Matthews (1842 - 1927), 1880. The Prince of Wales, later Edward VII, is shown leaving Brighton Pavilion with a Captain's escort of the Middlesex Yeomanry on the occasion of its opening in 1880. In the carriage are the Prince of Wales, Princess Alexandra and their three daughters, the Princess Royal, the Princess Maud, Queen of Norway, and Princess Victoria. In the foreground is Major Henry John Tritton, with five other members of his family depicted to the left of the carriage: Emmeline Caroline Alexandra Tritton, Anna Isabella Tritton (wife of Major Tritton), her brother, Colonel James Hornby Buller, and to his left, Mildred Isabella Tritton. In front of her is Blanche Georgina Hornby Tritton. The artist can be identified as the Captain seen to the left of the carriage.
Provenance
Gift from the Radcliffe family of Warleigh, Nr. Plymouth in 1970. There is a photograph of Warleigh in Nanny's Bedroom.
Makers and roles
Major John E. Chapman Matthews (1842 - 1927), original artist