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Portraiture

Prince Albert was an early adopter of portrait photography

AFTER DR ERNST BECKER (1826-88)

'The Prince of Wales and Prince Alfred with their Playfellows in the Gardens of Buckingham Palace'

1889 copy after an original of June 1854

Carbon print | 11.8 x 14.1 cm (image) | RCIN 2906526

Photograph of a group portrait taken in the gardens of Buckingham Palace. Standing, from left to right are: Vesey Dawson, Frederick St Maur, Stanley Dawson, Maitland Dawson, John Athole Farquarson, Henry Farquarson and Charlie Phipps. Seated, from left to right, are: Prince Alfred, later Duke of Edinburgh and Saxe-Coburg & Gotha, Lord Arthur Clinton and Albert Edward, Prince of Wales later King Edward VII.
  • Creator(s)

    After Dr Ernst Becker (1826-88) (photographer)

    Gustav William Henry Mullins (1854-1921) (photographer)

  • The Prince of Wales & Prince/ Alfred with their Playfellows/ in the Gardens of Buckingham Palace/ June- 1854./ 1. Hon. V. Dawson 2 seat. Alfred 3. Fred: St Maur 4. Ld. Arthur Clinton 5. Stanley Dawson 6. Pce of Wales 7. Maitland Dawson/ 8. John Athole Farquarson 9. Harry Farquarson 10. Charles Phipps

    Reproduced & Printed in carbon by Mullins 1889

  • 11.8 x 14.1 cm (image)

    28.2 x 22.9 cm (page dimensions)

  • Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, and Prince Alfred with their Playfellows in the Gardens of Buckingham Palace, June 1854 [Photographic Portraits. Vol 1/59 (1853-1857)]

  • Acquired by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert

  • Subject(s)
    • Places
      • Europe
        • Great Britain
          • England
            • Greater London [England]
              • London [Greater London]
                • City of Westminster
                  • Buckingham Palace
                    • Buckingham Palace Gardens
    • Children
    • Boys