Robert Antoine Müller (active 1872-83)
Princess Louise of Prussia (1860-1917), Duchess of Connaught Dated 1879
Oil on canvas | 134.9 x 95.7 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external) | RCIN 405022
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Robert Antoine Müller (active 1872-83)
Princess Louise of Prussia (1860-1917), Duchess of Connaught Dated 1879
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Princess Louise of Prussia is shown in three-quarter length standing in a landscape. She wears a white dress and the badge of the Order of Louise and holds a feather fan in her right hand. This painting is a copy painted by Robert A. Müller for Queen Victoria of an original portrait by Von Angeli, signed and dated 1879, at Bagshot Park. When the Duke of Connaught saw the original portrait in November 1878 he wrote to the Queen to describe it: ‘It is really lovely, so like & yet so pretty & natural – She is taken three quarters face in a low gown of a creamy colour, her hair quite plain, my locket round her neck on a thin gold chain, & that ruby & diamond star left her by her Grandmama in her dress… I tell you the particulars as I think they may interest you.’
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Painted for Queen Victoria
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Oil on canvas
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134.9 x 95.7 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external)
151.5 x 118.6 x 9.0 cm (frame, external)
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