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Frederick William, Crown Prince of Prussia (1831-88) Signed and dated 1867
Oil on canvas | 80.6 x 65 x 2 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external) | RCIN 404905
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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.
Prince Frederick William had married Princess Victoria, the eldest daughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, in 1858. This painting and a companion painting of his wife (RCIN 404906) were hung in the Kaiser Freidrich Palais in Berlin. They were left in the Princess' (then Empress') will in 1898 to the Prince of Wales and sent to England in 1901. Here the Prince wears the uniform of a General of Infantry and the ribbon and star of the Black Eagle. His badges include the Black Eagle and the Order 'Pour La Mérite'.
Signed and dated: Fr Winterhalter / 1867. Inscribed on the back with the date of their marriage, 25 January 1858.Provenance
Painted for the sitter and bequeathed to Edward VII, when Prince of Wales
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Oil on canvas
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80.6 x 65 x 2 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external)
99.2 x 83.6 x 5.5 cm (frame, external)
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