Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany
(1853-1884), Fourth and youngest son of Queen VictoriaSitter associated with 61 portraits
The birth of Leopold was the first at which Victoria used chloroform, thus sanctioning the use of anaesthesia recently developed by James Young Simpson. Leopold inherited the disease of haemophilia from his mother and spent most of his childhood as a semi-invalid. He also suffered from epilepsy, an illness that affected the course of his life. Unable to pursue a military career because of his illness, he instead became a patron of the arts and literature and served as an unofficial secretary to his mother.
The Royal Family on the terrace of Osborne House
by Leonida Caldesi
albumen print, 1857
NPG P26
Group of fifteen, including Queen Victoria
by W. & D. Downey
albumen print, 25 May 1868
NPG P22(2)
by W. & D. Downey
albumen print, 25 May 1868
NPG P22(3)
Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany; Princess Louise Caroline Alberta, Duchess of Argyll
by W. & D. Downey
albumen print, 1868
NPG P22(7)
Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany
by Sir Leslie Ward
watercolour, published in Vanity Fair 21 April 1877
NPG 4711
Queen Victoria with her family
by Caldesi, Blanford & Co, after Leonida Caldesi
albumen carte-de-visite, early 1860s (1857)
NPG x134737
Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany; Prince Arthur, 1st Duke of Connaught and Strathearn
by John Jabez Edwin Mayall
albumen carte-de-visite, 1860
NPG x45774
Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany; Prince Arthur, 1st Duke of Connaught and Strathearn
by Hills & Saunders
half-plate glass negative, 1860s
NPG x35281
by and after John Jabez Edwin Mayall
albumen carte-de-visite photomontage, early 1860s
NPG x132718
by Ashford Brothers & Co, after John Jabez Edwin Mayall, and John & Charles Watkins, and Georg Emil Hansen
albumen carte-de-visite, 1860s
NPG x134740
by Ashford Brothers & Co, after John Jabez Edwin Mayall, and John & Charles Watkins, and Georg Emil Hansen
albumen carte-de-visite, 1860s
NPG x134741
Queen Victoria with her family
after John Jabez Edwin Mayall
albumen carte-de-visite, 1860s
NPG x134742
Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Queen Victoria and their children
after John Jabez Edwin Mayall
albumen carte-de-visite, circa 1861
NPG Ax9571
Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany
by John Jabez Edwin Mayall
hand-coloured albumen carte-de-visite, February 1861
NPG Ax46714
Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany
by John Jabez Edwin Mayall
albumen carte-de-visite, February 1861
NPG x15726
Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany
by John Jabez Edwin Mayall
albumen carte-de-visite, February 1861
NPG Ax9578
Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany
by John Jabez Edwin Mayall
albumen print, February 1861
NPG Ax196517
Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany
by Ghémar Frères
albumen carte-de-visite, circa 1862
NPG x127200
Album introductory carte-de-visite with members of the Royal Family
by Ashford Brothers & Co, after John Jabez Edwin Mayall, and Ghémar Frères, and (Octavius) Charles Watkins, and Émile Desmaisons, and Unknown photographers
albumen carte-de-visite, circa 1862
NPG x197214
Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany
by Ghémar Frères
albumen carte-de-visite, circa 1862
NPG x196308
Queen Victoria with her family
by John Jabez Edwin Mayall
carbon print, April 1863
NPG x36347
Queen Victoria with her family
by John Jabez Edwin Mayall
albumen carte-de-visite, April 1863
NPG Ax131299
Queen Victoria with her family
by John Jabez Edwin Mayall
hand-coloured albumen carte-de-visite, April 1863
NPG Ax46726
'Upwards of five hundred photographic portraits of the most celebrated personages of the age'
by Frederick Holland Mares, after Disdéri, and Camille Silvy, and Duroni & Murer, and Émile Desmaisons, and John Jabez Edwin Mayall, and Herbert Watkins, and William Edward Kilburn, and Horatio Nelson King, and John & Charles Watkins, and James Mudd, and Unknown photographers, published by Ashford Brothers & Co
albumen carte-de-visite, 1863
On display in Room 22 on Floor 2 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG x139661
Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany
by Hills & Saunders, published by A. Marion, Son & Co
albumen carte-de-visite, 1864
NPG Ax131373
Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany
by Hills & Saunders, published by A. Marion, Son & Co
albumen carte-de-visite, 1864
NPG x15724
Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany; Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh and Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
by Hills & Saunders, published by A. Marion, Son & Co
hand-coloured albumen carte-de-visite, 19 April 1864
NPG Ax46745
The children of Queen Victoria
by Robert Jefferson Bingham
albumen carte-de-visite, August 1865
NPG x131268
Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany
by Hills & Saunders, published by A. Marion, Son & Co
hand-coloured albumen carte-de-visite, 1866
NPG Ax46728
Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany; Princess Louise Caroline Alberta, Duchess of Argyll
by Disdéri
hand-coloured albumen carte-de-visite, November 1866
NPG Ax46787
Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany; Prince Arthur, 1st Duke of Connaught and Strathearn
by Hills & Saunders
albumen cabinet card, late 1860s
NPG x38486
Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany; Prince Arthur, 1st Duke of Connaught and Strathearn
by Hills & Saunders
albumen cabinet card, late 1860s
NPG x29191
by W. & D. Downey
albumen carte-de-visite, 25 May 1868
NPG x3610
Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany; Robinson Duckworth
by Hills & Saunders
albumen carte-de-visite, circa 1870
NPG x45109
Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany
by Hills & Saunders
albumen carte-de-visite, circa 1870
NPG x15725
Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany
by Elliott & Fry
albumen carte-de-visite, early 1870s
NPG x15728
'Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen and Family'
published by Hughes & Edmonds
albumen carte-de-visite, 1870s
NPG x139601
Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany
by W. & D. Downey
albumen carte-de-visite, March 1872
NPG Ax46164
Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany
by Hills & Saunders
albumen print, 1873
NPG x34166
Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany
by Lombardi & Co
albumen carte-de-visite, circa late 1870s
NPG x15727
Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany
by Alexander Bassano
albumen cabinet card, circa 1883
NPG x15730
Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany
by Alexander Bassano
albumen cabinet card, circa 1883
NPG x15729
Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany; Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone
by Hills & Saunders
albumen cabinet card, 1883
NPG Ax5552
Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany
by Alexander Bassano, published by J. Beagles & Co
bromide postcard print, 1900s (circa 1883)
NPG x8746
by Hills & Saunders
albumen cabinet card, 1883
NPG x197970
Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany
by Richard James Lane, printed by M & N Hanhart, after Franz Xaver Winterhalter
lithograph, 1855 (1855)
NPG D33802
Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany
by Richard James Lane, printed by M & N Hanhart, after Franz Xaver Winterhalter
lithograph, 1855 (1855)
NPG D35060
Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany
by Richard James Lane, printed by M & N Hanhart, after Franz Xaver Winterhalter
lithograph, 1855 (1855)
NPG D21991
Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany
by Richard James Lane, printed by M & N Hanhart, published by John Mitchell, after William Bembridge
lithograph, published 12 July 1859
NPG D33803
Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany
by Richard James Lane, printed by M & N Hanhart, published by John Mitchell, after William Bembridge
lithograph, published 12 July 1859
NPG D22129
probably by Sir John Gilbert, published by Illustrated London News
wood engraving, published 13 November 1869
NPG D48330
Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany ('Princes. No. 5.')
by Sir Leslie Ward
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 21 April 1877
NPG D43793
Key to 'Royal Family Group, 1874' (Queen Victoria with her family)
after Thomas Agnew & Sons Ltd, after Unknown artist
ink on acetate, (1881)
NPG D33661
by Raphael Tuck & Sons
chromolithograph, 1887
NPG D43330
Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany
by Alexander Bassano
half-plate glass negative, circa 1883
NPG x95989
Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany
by Alexander Bassano
half-plate glass negative, circa 1883
NPG x95990
Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany
by Alexander Bassano
half-plate glass negative, circa 1883
NPG x95991
Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany
by Alexander Bassano
half-plate glass negative, mid 1880s
NPG x95992
Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany
by Alexander Bassano
half-plate glass negative, mid 1880s
NPG x95993
Related People
- Princess Helen, Duchess of Albany (wife)
- Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (father)
- Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh and Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (brother)
- Prince Alfred of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (nephew)
- Princess Alice, Grand Duchess of Hesse (sister)
- Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone (daughter)
- Prince Arthur, 1st Duke of Connaught and Strathearn (brother)
- Princess Beatrice of Battenberg (sister)
- Prince Charles Edward, 2nd Duke of Albany and Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (son)
- King Edward VII (brother)
- Princess Helena Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein (sister)
- Prince Johann Leopold Wilhelm Albert Ferdinand Victor of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (grandson)
- Princess Louise Caroline Alberta, Duchess of Argyll (sister)
- Queen Victoria (mother)
- Victoria, Empress of Germany and Queen of Prussia (sister)
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