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Franz Xaver Winterhalter: Princess Alice (1843-78), later Grand Duchess of Hesse  wikidata:Q28024409 reasonator:Q28024409
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Franz Xaver Winterhalter  (1805–1873)  wikidata:Q168659
 
Franz Xaver Winterhalter
Description German- painter, lithographer, drawer and portrait painter
Date of birth/death 20 April 1805 Edit this at Wikidata 8 July 1873 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Menzenschwand Frankfurt
Work period 1863 Edit this at Wikidata
Work location
Paris; Belgium; Freiburg im Breisgau; Karlsruhe; Munich; Kingdom of Italy; Russia; Spain; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Edit this at Wikidata
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artist QS:P170,Q168659
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Title
Princess Alice (1843-78), later Grand Duchess of Hesse Edit this at Wikidata
title QS:P1476,en:"Princess Alice (1843-78), later Grand Duchess of Hesse Edit this at Wikidata"
label QS:Len,"Princess Alice (1843-78), later Grand Duchess of Hesse Edit this at Wikidata"
Object type painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
Genre portrait Edit this at Wikidata
Description
Portrait of Alice of the United Kingdom
Caption from the museum's website

Winterhalter was born in the Black Forest where he was encouraged to draw at school. In 1818 he went to Freiburg to study under Karl Ludwig Schüler and then moved to Munich in 1823, where he attended the Academy and studied under Josef Stieler, a fashionable portrait painter. Winterhalter was first brought to the attention of Queen Victoria by the Queen of the Belgians and subsequently painted numerous portraits at the English court from 1842 till his death.

Princess Alice (1843-78) is wearing a white ball dress and a black shawl. Originally she held a wreath of flowers in her hand, but this was changed as the painting progressed. Franz Xaver Winterhalter began the painting on 4 June 1861 and on 13 June Queen Victoria wrote in her Journal that he had 'finished Alice's beautiful picture, which is so like & fine'. Alice was the third child and second daughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. Known for her sweet nature, she often took on the role of peacekeeper in the royal household. The marriage of her older sister, Princess Victoria, in 1858 left Alice as the eldest daughter at home, and the Queen and Prince Albert both turned to her for company. In a popular edition of Alice's letters to the Queen, published in 1885, Princess Helena, her sister, described her as 'loving Daughter and Sister, the devoted Wife and Mother, and a perfect, true Woman'. In 1862 she married Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse.

Depicted people Alice of the United Kingdom Edit this at Wikidata
Date 1861 (dated)
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 118.7 cm (46.7 in); width: 88.9 cm (35 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,118.7U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,88.9U174728
institution QS:P195,Q1459037
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institution QS:P195,Q42182
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RCIN 404579 (Royal Collection) Edit this at Wikidata
Object history Provenance: Commissioned by Queen Victoria
References Royal Collection (UK) ID: 404579 Edit this at Wikidata
Source/Photographer Royal Collection RCIN 404579 Winterhalter and the courts of Europe
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