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Couple being married in front of a crowd of dignitaries
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HEINRICH VON ANGELI (1840-1925)

Alexandra Feodorovna, Empress of Russia (1872-1918)

Signed and dated 1897

RCIN 404572

This elegant portrait of Queen Victoria’s favourite granddaughter was painted when the sitter and her husband, Nicholas II, stayed at Balmoral during the autumn of 1896. In a letter to her daughter, Empress Frederick, the Queen noted that there had not been time to paint the Emperor.

  • WINDSOR CASTLE INVENTORY....[date] / No.... [inventory number]; oval stamp referring to the Victorian Pictures Inventory1898 No 2385
    [crown] / VR [encircled by] Queen's Personal Property ; stamp]
    BUCKINGHAM PALACE INVENTORY NUMBER / [Number] ; an oval stamp, enclosing a number; relates to the current B.P. Picture Inventory ( started ca. 1968; includes oils, miniatures, enamels, watercolours & drawings, porcelain paintings & mosaics)37


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