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Couple being married in front of a crowd of dignitaries
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HEINRICH VON ANGELI (1840-1925)

The Family of the Grand Duke of Hesse

Signed and dated 1879

RCIN 408904

This family group portrait of Queen Victoria’s daughter, Princess Alice, her husband Grand Duke Louis and their children, includes Princess Alix, future Empress of Russia. Also portrayed is her sister Princess Elizabeth (Ella), who, like her sister, married into the Romanov family, when she wed Grand Duke Sergei in 1884.

Painted for Queen Victoria.

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