Sunday, May 18, 2025

Queen Victoria ~ born May 24, 1819


Photo by Barry Wallace

Painting by Sir William Ross (1794-1860), Victoria, Princess Royal, 1850.  Watercolour on ivory mounted on zinc, 238 x 183 mm.   Commissioned by Prince Albert from the artist for the sum of 90 guineas and listed in the prince's accounts on January 11, 1851.   Royal collection @2010, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.   The photo of this reproduction was taken in the dining room of my daughter Allison's home in Aurora.   A copy of the artwork also appears in the Prince of Wales Hotel at Niagara-on-the-lake.

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Barry Wallace

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