Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom (1819-1901)
Simplicity 1858
Oil on canvas | 34.3 x 34.1 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external) | RCIN 403614
Prince Consort's Bathroom, Osborne House
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This is a copy of Hermann Winterhalter’s painting (RCIN 404782) which had been painted for Queen Victoria as a present for Prince Albert at Christmas 1843. The original was one of a set of four ‘Virtues’, the others being La Naïveté (RCIN 404538), L’Innocence (RCIN 406400) and La Pudeur (RCIN 404627). Queen Victoria had described it as a ‘very pretty painting’ in her Journal. Signed and dated: VR [initials in monogram] copd / June 1852.
Provenance
Painted by Queen Victoria; recorded in the State Visitors' Sitting Room no 227 at Buckingham Palace in 1876
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Medium and techniques
Oil on canvas
Measurements
34.3 x 34.1 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external)
47.4 x 47.5 x 6.4 cm (frame, external)
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