PRINCE ALBERT
by: Street Artist, Paris, France
Location: Lobby
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Country: France
This reproduction portrait of Prince Albert was commissioned by Vintage Hotels and painted by a street artist in Paris, France. The original portrait was painted by Franz Xaver Winterhalter. It was Winterhalter’s first commission by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, he later became their favoured painter producing over one hundred works.
As described by the Royal Collection Trust, in this portrait “Prince Albert wears a field marshal’s undress uniform with the star of the Garter and badge of the Golden Fleece, and carries a Mameluke-hilted sword. In 1843 the aiguillette – the decorative cord worn suspended from the right shoulder – would replace the traditional epaulettes and scales on all field marshal uniforms; the idea may have come from Prince Albert himself.”
Source:
(n.d.). Prince Albert (1819-61). Royal Collection Trust. https://www.rct.uk/collection/401412/prince-albert-1819-61
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