- Object type
- Paintings
- Date
- Production: 1898
- Artist
- Ernest Dudley Heath (1867 - 1945)
- Subject(s)
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Empire and Commonwealth
Gender
Portraiture
Royalty - Associated person
- Subject: Queen Victoria (1819 - 1901)
- Associated organisation
- The Grand Priory of the Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem in England (1888-1926)
- Associated activity
- Royal Event
- Dimensions
- Height x width x depth (canvas size): 2500 x 1480 x 30mm
- Materials and technique
- Oil on canvas
- Physical description
- Full-length portrait of a seated Queen Victoria on the left hand side, adorned with with Order insignia, diamonds and holding the Royal Charter. In the top left hand corner, a portrait of Prince Albert, also wearing Order insignia, is painted into the background.
- Production place
- England
- Themes
- Royal Connections
- Catalogue number
- 1746
Queen Victoria as Sovereign Head
This painting, like many of Queen Victoria, features her husband, Albert, in the top left corner. He had died aged 42 in 1861, many years before this painting was made in 1898. She wore black in mourning for him for the rest of her life, just as she does here.