GERMAN SCHOOL, 17TH CENTURY
Sophia Dorothea, Consort of George I (1666-1726)
1690-95RCIN 420940
This miniature is a rare portrait of Sophia Dorothea, consort of George I. Their arranged marriage was an unhappy one and ended in divorce following the exposure of Sophia Dorothea’s affair with a German nobleman. She was exiled and died after thirty-two years of imprisonment.
Acquired by Queen Victoria in 1881
Cat. 190