Winterhalter

Franz Xaver Winterhalter
albumen print by Ernst Becker - Prince Albert's photo album
1854

Franz Xaver Winterhalter stayed permanently busy for the last thirty years of his life painting portraits under the direction of Prince Albert and Queen Victoria. This sampling (from the Royal Collection) represents only the first decade of Winterhalter's monumental labors.

Queen Victoria
1842

Prince Albert
1842

Victoria
commissioned as a birthday gift for Albert
1843

Royal Family
1846

Contemplation
commissioned as a Christmas gift for Albert
1847

Daughters of  Victoria & Albert
Alice, Victoria, Louise, Helena
1849

Victoria & Victoire
Princess Victoire of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, the Queen's favorite cousin
1852

Victoria & Albert 
Fancy-dress costumes in the style of Charles II
1851

Victoria with Prince Arthur
the Queen's seventh child and third son
1850

Prince Arthur
1853

"Here the three-year-old Prince is depicted in uniform, with a musket. The uniform is stated to be that of a Lieutenant in the 1st Foot Guards, but the shoulder-strap plate and the arrangement of the buttons on the cuffs are those of the 3rd, or Scots Fusilier, Guards. The uniform was passed on to Prince Arthur’s son, ‘Little Arthur’, who appeared in it at tea on 6 March 1885. The uniform was ‘too tight for him, though the former wore it when he was 3’, according to Queen Victoria’s notes in her Journal."