Princess Charlotte of Wales (1796-1817) c.1816-18
Oil on canvas | 252.7 x 164.1 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external) | RCIN 405425
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Having begun life as a mezzotint engraver, George Dawe was much employed as a painter by Prince Leopold both during his marriage (1816-7) and after; he worked also for the Duke and Duchess of Kent. Like Lawrence he was at Aix-la-Chapelle to paint the crowned heads assembled there for the Congress in 1818. He spent the years 1818-28 working for the Emperor Alexander I in St Petersburg, creating 336 portraits of those responsible for the defeat of Napoleon, housed in a specially-created gallery in the Winter Palace (the equivalent of the Waterloo Chamber). He died soon after his return to England in 1829.
This is a copy of the full length length portrait of the Princess Charlotte by George Dawe in the Belgian Royal Collection, which hung at Claremont and was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1818.Provenance
First recorded in the Large Drawing Room at Buckingham Palace in 1841 (no 200); soon after installed in its present position of the Grand Staircase of Buckingham Palace
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Creator(s)
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Medium and techniques
Oil on canvas
Measurements
252.7 x 164.1 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external)