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Princess Sophia Matilda of Gloucester. by Samuel William Reynolds, after Sir Joshua Reynolds. mezzotint, (circa 1774) 6 1/4 in. x 6 3/8 in. (160 mm x 161 mm) plate size; 17 3/8 in. x 12 in. (441 mm x 306 mm) paper size. Purchased with help from the Friends of the National Libraries and the Pilgrim Trust, 1966. Reference Collection.
This portrait must date from c. 1800 when the sitter was 23. It is executed in a formula devised by Reynolds and Romney in the 1770s to express a young lady’s simplicity and sensibility. The white dress, veil and strings of pearls are simple and unaffected; the tender posture, dreamy smile, flushed cheeks and natural setting convey the sitter’s fine feelings.The sitter was George III’s ...
Princess Sophia Matilda (1773-1844) was the niece of George III, daughter of his brother Prince William Henry, duke of Gloucester and Maria, countess dowager of Waldegrave. Sophia never married nor had any children. She lived at New Lodge in Winkfield, near Windsor. She died on 29 November 1844 and is buried in St Georges Chapel, Windsor. The identity of the artist is unknown, but it may have ...
When George III was asked by Lord Eglinton to sit for the most fashionable portrait painter of the day, Joshua Reynolds, he replied: ‘Mr Ramsay is my painter, my Lord.’ Reynolds tried to gain royal notice with two speculative ventures – a portrait of George III as Prince of Wales (OM 1011, 401034) and an oil sketch for a depiction of his marriage to Queen Charlotte (OM 1012, 404353 ...
Princess Sophia Matilda (1773-1844) was the niece of George III, daughter of his brother Prince William Henry, Duke of Gloucester and Maria, Countess Dowager of Waldegrave. Sophia never married nor had any children. She lived at New Lodge in Winkfield, near Windsor in Berkshire, died on 29 November 1844 and is buried in St George's Chapel, Windsor.
OD 5: Full length, when a child. Lying down, arm around poodle-dog, on which head is resting. 3rd state of 3. 3 stamps: K (Thomas Kirk) lr, and 2 blind stamps,VR with crown, mt lr and mt uc.
3 November 1777 - 27 May 1848. Princess Sophia was born at Buckingham House, now Buckingham Palace, on 3 November 1777, she was the fifth daughter of King George III and Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. The infant princess was christened with the names Sophia Matilda on 1 December 1777 in the Great Council Chamber at St James's Palace by ...
