Empress Friedrich, German Empress and Queen of Prussia (1840-1901)
A View of Kronborg 1881
Oil on canvas | 131.2 x 214.8 cm (frame, external) | RCIN 402590
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This painting and a companion picture, A view of Windsor Castle (RCIN 402591), were painted in Berlin by the Princess Royal, Queen Victoria’s eldest daughter, to hang above doorways in the Prince of Wales’s Dining-Room at Marlborough House. The Princess wrote to her mother in December 1881 that she was ‘just finishing’ the paintings: ‘I am much disappointed with the result though they have given me no end of trouble. I only hope that they will be good enough to be put up in that lovely room’. The view depicts the castle at Kronborg from the west. It is on the coast near Helsingør (Elsinore), north of Copenhagen, Denmark. It had been built in the reign of Frederick II and had been restored after a fire in 1629 by Christian IV. The Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal’s brother, had married Princess Alexandra of Denmark in 1863. The decorative painted framework incorporates the arms of the Princess Alexandra and those of the Prince, carrying his Saxe-Coburg arms on a shield.
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Painted for Albert Edward, Prince of Wales
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Oil on canvas
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131.2 x 214.8 cm (frame, external)
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Kronborg Castle, Elsinore