Queen Victoria

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Inscribed in pencil (lower right): H.M. Queen Victoria/Sketched from life for Miniature/by Adolphe de Bathe

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Purchased together with a drawing of Princess Ena. The location of Bathe's original miniature is not known. On the evidence of the sitter's age, the drawing appears to date from the late 1880s or early 1890s.

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Purchased from the artist's widow, Mrs A. de Bathe, 1956.


This extended catalogue entry is from the out-of-print National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: Richard Ormond, Early Victorian Portraits, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1973, and is as published then. For the most up-to-date details on individual Collection works, we recommend reading the information provided in the Search the Collection results on this website in parallel with this text.

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