National Portrait Gallery - Person - Princess Alice, Grand Duchess of Hesse

Princess Alice, Grand Duchess of Hesse (1843-1878), Third child of Queen Victoria; wife of Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine

Sitter associated with 96 portraits
The great-grandmother of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, the consort of Queen Elizabeth II. She had a reputation for sweetness of disposition, and was said to play the role of peacemaker in the often stormy royal household. In 1862 she married Prince Louis of Hesse; the couple lived at Darmstadt, Hesse and had seven children. An interest in child welfare led the princess to make the Neues Palais a centre of philanthropic activity. It was later learned that Alice carried and passed on the haemophilia gene she inherited from Queen Victoria to several of her own children.

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Princess Alice, Grand Duchess of Hesse

by Thomas Landseer, published by Joseph Hogarth, after Sir Edwin Henry Landseer
mixed-method engraving, published 1845
NPG D35055

Domestic Life of the Royal Family

by Unknown artist
lithograph, 1848 or after
NPG D20924

Princess Alice, Grand Duchess of Hesse

by Thomas Fairland, printed by M & N Hanhart, after Franz Xaver Winterhalter
lithograph, 1850
NPG D33820

Princess Alice, Grand Duchess of Hesse

by Thomas Fairland, printed by M & N Hanhart, after Franz Xaver Winterhalter
lithograph, 1850
NPG D35056

The seven oldest children of Queen Victoria

by Frederick James Smyth, published by Illustrated London News, after Unknown artist
wood engraving, published 25 December 1852
NPG D33826

Princess Alice, Grand Duchess of Hesse

by Richard James Lane, after Franz Xaver Winterhalter
lithograph, (1857)
NPG D21993

Princess Alice, Grand Duchess of Hesse

by Richard James Lane, after Franz Xaver Winterhalter
lithograph, (1859)
NPG D22121

Princess Alice, Grand Duchess of Hesse

by D.J. Pound, published by Illustrated News of the World, after John Jabez Edwin Mayall
stipple and line engraving, 1860s
NPG D33822

Princess Alice, Grand Duchess of Hesse

by James Henry Lynch, printed by M & N Hanhart, published by Paul and Dominic Colnaghi & Co, after E. Moira
lithograph, published 12 February 1861
NPG D33821