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Crown and Camera: The British Royal Family and Photography 1842-1910 : The Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace
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    LEONIDA CALDESI (1823-91)

    Prince Arthur (1850 - 1942), later Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught

    1857

    RCIN 2900255

    Prince Arthur (later Duke of Connaught) was born at Buckingham Palace on 1 May 1850. He was the seventh child and third son of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, and enjoyed a long life of distinguished military and public service. In this photograph, taken by Caldesi in 1857, the Prince has adopted a pose reminiscent of the two putti in Raphael's Sistine Madonna.
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