Royal portraits painting

“State portrait of Countess Katinka Kendeffy de Malomvíz Andrássy (Hungarian), ca. 1867. via muzeumhumenne, Budapest. ”

Marie Duplessis was born in 1824 as Rose Alphonsine Plessis in a poor family she was passed around as a child and only moved to Paris when she came of age. While in Paris she was constantly in and out of jobs and soon came to realise that her looks were best asset. So she began her life as a courtesan and began to work her way up to the wealthiest citizens of Paris. Her head was turned by the wealth and her days were now filled with shopping and getting ready for the Salon's, Parties or…

Children, mothers, aunts, half-sisters, cousins, in-laws.... (And what's the daughter of a half-sister? A "half-niece"...?) Prince ...

This painting is a copy of Winterhalter’s original portrait, painted in Paris in 1864. Graefle also copied its companion painting of the Emperor Maximilian, Princess Charlotte’s husband (RCIN 402484). Princess Charlotte (1840-1927) was the only daughter of Leopold I, King of the Belgians. She was lively and intelligent as a child and much loved by her English relations. She married the in 1857 and her husband was created Emperor of Mexico in 1864. He was executed there in 1867. Queen…

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…

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

Richard Buckner 1812-1883 Engeland

1858 Marie of Baden, Princess of Leiningen (1834-1899) by William Corden the Younger (Royal Collection). From Wikimedia.

Queen Camilla wore Queen Mary’s Russian Sapphire Cluster Brooch for the first time on #CommonwealthDay The spectacular jewel of possible Imperial Russian provenance has been an heirloom of the British Royal Family for 90 years.