Portraiture
Prince Albert was an early adopter of portrait photography
BRITISH SCHOOL, 19TH CENTURY
Princess Beatrice (1857-1944)
c. 1857Watercolour over photograph on card | 3.7 cm (Diameter) (support, diameter) | RCIN 420315
Princess Beatrice is depicted as an infant, swathed in a pink shawl, in this hand-coloured photograph. The original by Leonida Caldesi shows the Princess in the arms of her nurse, Mrs Hughes, on 26 June 1857 (RCIN 2900104).
Creator(s)
British School, 19th century (artist)
After Leonida Caldesi (1823-91) (photographer)
H J Hatfield & Sons (framemaker)
Subject(s)
Beatrice, Princess Henry of Battenberg (1857-1944)3.7 cm (Diameter) (support, diameter)
4.8 cm (frame diameter)
3.5 cm (sight diameter)
Princess Beatrice (1857-1944), later Princess Henry of Battenburg
- First recorded in the Royal Collection during the reign of King Edward VII
Subject(s)
- People
- Children
- Natural Sciences & Mathematics
- Biological sciences
- Zoology
- Animals
- Mammals
- Humans
- Babies (human)
- Humans
- Mammals
- Animals
- Zoology
- Biological sciences
Object type(s)
- visual works
- miniatures (paintings)
- People
