Friday, January 18, 2019

Narrative Paintings Collected by Victoria and Albert

Horace Vernet
Zouaves at Malakoff
1856
oil on canvas
(gift of Queen Victoria to Prince Albert)
Royal Collection, Great Britain

Edward Armitage
The Battle of Meeanee, 17 February 1843
1847
oil on canvas
(purchased by Queen Victoria)
Royal Collection, Great Britain

Paul Delaroche
Napoleon at Fontainebleau, 31 March 1814
1846
oil on canvas
(gift of Queen Victoria to Prince Albert)
Royal Collection, Great Britain

Edward Matthew Ward
The Tomb of Napoleon
1856
oil on canvas
(acquired by Queen Victoria)
Royal Collection, Great Britain

Edward Matthew Ward
Queen Victoria at the Tomb of Napoleon, 24 August 1855
1860
oil on canvas
(commissioned by Queen Victoria)
Royal Collection, Great Britain

Ernest Meissonier
La Rixe (The Brawl)
1855
oil on panel
(gift to Prince Albert from Napoleon III)
Royal Collection, Great Britain

Daniel Maclise
Scene from Midas (a burlesque by Kane O'Hara)
1839
oil on canvas
(purchased by Queen Victoria)
Royal Collection, Great Britain

Daniel Maclise
Scene from Undine (a novel by Fouqué)
1843
oil on panel
(gift of Queen Victoria to Prince Albert)
Royal Collection, Great Britain

William Powell Frith
Ramsgate Sands (Life at the Seaside)
1851-54
oil on canvas
(purchased by Queen Victoria)
Royal Collection, Great Britain

William Edward Frost
L'Allegro
1848
oil on canvas
(gift of Queen Victoria to Prince Albert)
Royal Collection, Great Britain

Philip Foltz
Tyrolese Woman and Child (at a Mountain Shrine)
1848
oil on canvas
(gift of Queen Victoria to Prince Albert)
Royal Collection, Great Britain

Gustaf Wappers
Souvenir d'Anvers
1843
oil on canvas
(presented to Queen Victoria by the artist)
Royal Collection, Great Britain

Jan Frans Portaels
A Sicilian Bride
1861
oil on canvas
(gift of Prince Albert to Queen Victoria)
Royal Collection, Great Britain

Joseph Vincent Gibson
The Cottage Home
1856
oil on panel
(gift of Prince Albert to Queen Victoria)
Royal Collection, Great Britain

Edwin Landseer
Queen Victoria at Osborne
(John Brown in attendance)
1865-67
oil on canvas
(commissioned by Queen Victoria)
Royal Collection, Great Britain