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Queen Victoria's Palace
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SIR EDWIN LANDSEER (1802-73)

Queen Victoria (1819-1901) in Fancy Dress

1845

Oil on panel | 43.2 x 31.8 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external) | RCIN 404879

The Queen is wearing eighteenth-century dress (with the ribbon and star of the Garter), her hair powdered and crowned with a diadem and a fan in her right hand. On 6 June 1845 a masked ball was held at Buckingham Palace and the Queen had recorded in her Journal that she had herself ‘coiffée [her hair styled] like the other day, with powder…with a diadem…I had myself sketched by 2 painters’. Inscribed on the back with the names of the artist and sitter and the date, 4 June 1845.

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