Queen Victoria
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© National Portrait Gallery, London
Early Victorian Portraits Catalogue
Queen Victoria
by Adolphe De Bathe
circa 1890
14 3/4 in. x 9 7/8 in. (375 mm x 251 mm)
NPG 4042
Inscriptionback to top
Inscribed in pencil (lower right): H.M. Queen Victoria/Sketched from life for Miniature/by Adolphe de Bathe
This portraitback to top
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.
Provenanceback to top
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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