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This little portrait in watercolour on ivory was apparently produced in 1840, the year of Queen Victoria's marriage to Prince Albert. From the Saxon duchy of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Albert was 20 when he married Victoria, his first cousin. This is one of several portraits of the Prince Consort painted by Ross, who was Queen Victoria's Miniature Painter in Ordinary.Prince Albert had a keen appreciation of painting and was one of the first collectors in Britain to buy so-called primitive Italian and German painting. By 'primitive' it was meant that the pictures had been produced before the Renaissance. In 1863, after the death of Prince Albert at the relatively young age of 42, Queen Victoria presented a number of his pictures to the National Gallery in accordance with her late husband's wishes.
The National Gallery, London
London
Title
Prince Albert
Date
1840
Medium
Watercolour on ivory
Accession number
NG6537
Acquisition method
Presented by Mr Edwin Bucher, 1991
Work type
Watercolour
The National Gallery, London
Trafalgar Square, London, Greater London WC2N 5DN England
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