Coburg: the Arcades and Schloss Platz, by night c.1850
Pencil and watercolour with gum arabic and touches of bodycolour | 18.2 x 23.1 cm (whole object) | RCIN 920543
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A watercolour view of the Arcades and Schloss Platz in Coburg by night. Brückner was from a family of painter-decorators, and he himself became a theatrical stage designer and painter. Queen Victoria and Prince Albert acquired a substantial corpus of watercolours by Brückner and his son Max depicting the landscapes and sights in and around Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, the duchy of Prince Albert's family.This watercolour is datable after the unveiling of the statue of Duke Ernest I in August 1849, but before the alterations to the Veste Coburg (seen in the distance) in the late 1850s. The Queen and Prince Consort visited Coburg twice, in 1845 and 1860, and the Queen then returned on a number of occasions following Albert's death in 1861. Together, Queen Victoria and Prince Albert mounted many of their watercolour views of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha in three albums, and a survivng typescript list of their contents is presumed to accurately reflect their arrangement. These albums were dismantled around 1930 and many of the watercolours rearranged in the new, topographical, Souvenir Albums. The first of the albums, from which this watercolour derives, seems to have largely contained watercolours related to the visit of the Royal couple in 1845.
Provenance
Originally mounted in the first album of views of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha
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Creator(s)
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Medium and techniques
Pencil and watercolour with gum arabic and touches of bodycolour
Measurements
18.2 x 23.1 cm (whole object)
Other number(s)
RL 20543