QUEEN VICTORIA
by: Street Artist, Paris, France
Location: Front Desk
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Country: France
This reproduction portrait of Queen Victoria was commissioned by Vintage Hotels and painted by a street artist in Paris, France. The original portrait was painted by Franz Xaver Winterhalter in 1859 and hangs in the Grand Entrance and Marble Hall at Buckingham Palace.
As described by the Royal Collection Trust, “Queen Victoria had been wanting a new portrait of herself since at least March 1858. She wrote to the Princess Royal, her eldest daughter, before Winterhalter arrived, that the artist was 'to paint a full length of me in grand costume'. After the portrait was completed, along with a companion painting of Prince Albert, she described them as 'truly magnificent'.”
“The Queen is wearing the Robes of State, the circlet, and the earrings and necklace made by Garrard's, the jewellers in 1858, the year before this was painted. Her left-hand rests on some papers, next to the Imperial State Crown, and in the distance, we can see a view of Westminster.”
Source:
(n.d.). Queen Victoria (1819-1901). Royal Collection Trust. https://www.rct.uk/collection/405131/queen-victoria-1819-1901-0
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