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Portrait of Queen Charlotte

Maker

(Artists)
1753-1839

Title

Portrait of Queen Charlotte

Date of Production

(?) 1812

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

Height: 239 cm (canvas)
Width: 147.5 cm (canvas)

Accession Number

P.1947.LF.23

Mode of Acquisition

Arthur Hamilton Lee, bequest, 1947

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

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Label Text

This portrait of Queen Charlotte (1744-1818) was commissioned by the sitter for her Lord Chamberlain. Beechey copied an earlier composition, executed in 1796 to accompany the portrait of Charlotte’s husband, King George III.
The domestic image cultivated by the royal couple is apparent here: the Queen is in contemporary dress and lacks any overt symbols of royal authority or splendour. She is shown carrying a Maltese dog and walking the grounds of Frogmore, her house in the Home Park at Windsor, represented in the distance.

Provenance

Lee Bequest 1947

Exhibition History

The Gilbert, Courtauld and Wernher Collections, London & England, 07/01/1998-03/02/1998

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