Princess helena

Princess Helena (1846 - 1923) by Franz Xavier Winterhalter, 1861.

Princess Helena of the United Kingdom (Helena Augusta Victoria; born. 25 May 1846) was the third daughter & fifth child of Queen…

William Charles Bell trained as an enamel painter in Geneva before securing his first royal commission in March 1850. From then onwards, he was employed constantly by Queen Victoria for almost 50 years, painting enamel miniatures, often copied after Franz Xaver Winterhalters oil portraits, for her own collection and for distribution as gifts. His enamels were usually smaller than those by Henry Pierce Bone, William Essex or John Simpson, whose services she had previously employed, and many…

Winterhalter was born in the Black Forest where he was encouraged to draw at school. In 1818 he went to Freiburg to study under Karl Ludwig Schüler and then moved to Munich in 1823, where he attended the Academy and studied under Josef Stieler, a fashionable portrait painter. Winterhalter was first brought to the attention of Queen Victoria by the Queen of the Belgians and subsequently painted numerous portraits at the English court from 1842 till his death.Princess Helena (1846-1923)…

Princess Helena, Princess of Schleswig-Holstein by Alexander Bassano c.1882

Formal standing portrait of Helen Grant Pope, aged 27 years, taken 1872 by Robert Clifford of Dunedin. Includes a provenance note from her son, Robert James Pope.

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Princess Helena of the United Kingdom