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LOUIS HAGHE (1806-85)
The banquet for Prince Leopold's christening, 28 June 1853
dated 1853Pencil, watercolour and bodycolour | 33.0 x 47.4 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 919917
Prince Leopold, Victoria and Albert’s youngest son, was christened on 28 June 1853 at Buckingham Palace. The Queen recorded in her journal that the baby ‘screamed a good deal while being baptized’. Leopold’s parents and godparents later attended a banquet in the Picture Gallery. The colour lilac, which decorates the gallery walls, was fashionable in the 1850s.
