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GEORGE WASHINGTON WILSON (1823-93)

The Duke of Connaught and Strathearn (1850-1942), when Prince Arthur

1865

RCIN 2149112

During the summer of 1865, Wilson was commissioned to take a series of portraits of Queen Victoria’s family at Balmoral. The request interrupted his visit to England, where he was busy photographing the South Coast. The young Prince Arthur, aged 15, wears a tartan kilt with a sporran and a Tam o’Shanter hat. Wilson adopts more of a studio style in this photograph; in comparison to those taken in 1863, this portrait has none of the contextual interest of an outside setting. A chair and a strip of tartan carpet are the only props.


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