Princess Charlotte of Belgium, Empress of Mexico (1840-1927) Before March 1868
Oil on canvas | 99.3 x 74.2 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external) | RCIN 402474
Albert Graefle (1807-89)
Princess Charlotte of Belgium, Empress of Mexico (1840-1927) Before March 1868
Albert Graefle (1807-89)
Princess Charlotte of Belgium, Empress of Mexico (1840-1927) Before March 1868
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This painting is a copy of Winterhalter’s original portrait, painted in Paris in 1864. Graefle also copied its companion painting of the Emperor Maximilian, Princess Charlotte’s husband (RCIN 402484). Princess Charlotte (1840-1927) was the only daughter of Leopold I, King of the Belgians. She was lively and intelligent as a child and much loved by her English relations. She married the in 1857 and her husband was created Emperor of Mexico in 1864. He was executed there in 1867. Queen Victoria wrote in 1863: ‘Charlotte dear…is very venturesome and would go with Max to the end of the world’. The Princess’ health deteriorated after her husband’s death and she lived in seclusion in Belgium until she died in 1927.
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Painted for Queen Victoria; recorded in a Bedroom in York Tower (Room no 335) at Windsor Castle in 1878
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Oil on canvas
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99.3 x 74.2 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external)
135.2 x 112.4 x 8.7 cm (frame, external)
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