- Title:
- Prince Albert
- Object name(s):
- Picture; British
- Brief description:
- 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. These included some of the first fifteenth-century German pictures to enter the Gallery's collection. Among the paintings presented were the Crucifixion by Quentin Massys, the Virgin and Child by Hans Memling, Mater Dolorosa and the Virgin and Child by the workshop of Dirk Bouts, and An Augustinian Friar (?) by Gerard David.
- Collection:
- National Gallery
- Accession date:
- 1991-01-01
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1991
- Date - latest:
- 1991
- Acquisition source:
- Edwin Bucher
- Associated concept:
- collectors
- Credit line:
- Presented by Mr Edwin Bucher, 1991
- Current location:
- Not on display
- Current reproduction location:
- 1/277/119/524/mid_N-6537-00-000007.jpg
- Dimension:
- Height
- Dimension measured part:
- Overall
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 5.50
- Dimension:
- Width
- Dimension measured part:
- Overall
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 4.50
- Form:
- None
- Material:
- watercolour
- Material:
- ivory
- Material:
- watercolour on ivory
- Object name:
- Picture; British
- Object production date:
- Date - period:
- 1825-49
- Object production date:
- 1840
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1840
- Date - latest:
- 1840
- Object production person:
- William Charles Ross
- Person's birth date:
- 1794
- Person's death date:
- 1860
- Object production place:
- Britain
- Object production place:
- London
- Other number:
- NG6537
- Other number type:
- object number
- Other number:
- 0EUW-0001-0000-0000
- Other number type:
- PID
- Other number:
- NG6537
- Other number type:
- display number
- Other number:
- M174
- Other number type:
- Previous Object Number
- Other number:
- 000-02WT-0000
- Other number type:
- PID (NG alternative)
- Other number:
- ng36537
- Other number type:
- sort number
- Responsible department/section:
- Main Collection
- Right note:
- To encourage the use and reuse of the National Gallery's collection data, they are released under the following dedications and licences: Structured data (as opposed to narrative texts) are released under a Creative Commons Zero dedication (CC0): https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/. Descriptions, notes and all other narrative text content are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence (CC BY): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Images are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 licence (CC BY-NC-ND): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.
- Style:
- male portraits
- Style:
- bust portraits
- Style:
- realist
- Style:
- Victorian
- User's reference:
- The National Gallery: Complete Illustrated Catalogue
- Reference details:
- 586
- Reference note:
- Key bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- The National Gallery Report: April 1991 - March 1992
- Reference details:
- 12-13
- Reference note:
- Key bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Art for the nation : the Eastlakes and the Victorian art world /Susanna Avery-Quash and Julie Sheldon.
- Reference details:
- Ill. fig. 22
- Reference type:
- reference
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Use licence for this record: CC BY
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