Royalty painting portrait

Queen Victoria

Emperor Wilhelm II, 1909-11. Though recently repaired, the portrait still shows the marks of five slashes apparently inflicted by Russian soldiers at the end of World War II. The first grandchild of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, "Willy" suffered a birth injury that permanently damaged his left arm; many believe his disability, and others' reaction to it, severely affected his psychology. He was further warped by his early indoctrination into the all-pervasive Prussian military milieu…

Coronation Portraits of Queens of the United Kingdom from the House of Windsor (Saxe-Coburg and Gotha): Alexandra of Denmark Mary of Teck Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon Elizabeth II

Bordeaux en primeur releases continued this morning with Léoville and Langoa Barton and Pichon Longueville Comtesse de Lalande - but the cuts are still minimal.

“ Franz Xaver Winterhalter, Portrait of Marie-Louise, the first Queen of the Belgians (details) ”

Anastasia Iosifovna Ushakova, circa 1866. Ivan Kuzmich Makarov (23 March 1822, Arzamas - 9 April 1897, Saint Petersburg), Russian portrait painter. Born the son of Kuzma Alexandrovich Makarov, a serf artist of the Penza landowner Gorikhvostov, who had received his freedom in 1815. After completing his general education, from 1834 to 1841 the younger Makarov studied with his father at the Arzamas School of Painting, Russia's first provincial art school. On the basis of submissions he sent to…