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QUEEN VICTORIA, QUEEN OF THE UNITED KINGDOM (1819-1901)
Studies of trees, landscape compositions etc.
circa 1846circa 1850RCIN 981348
The Queen was a talented amateur artist, having studied with Edward Lear, Edwin Landseer, Franz Xaver Winterhalter and William Leitch. She was particularly competent at watercolour, encouraged by Leitch’s patient instruction. A number of practice sheets by the Queen survive, showing her diligently practising Leitch’s lessons, among them these studies of trees.
Nos 379 and 380
Nos 379 and 380
