1853
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Prince Arthur is a 1853 by Franz Xaver Winterhalter, a Impressionism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This is a black-and-white print of a young boy dressed in a fancy military uniform. His hat is huge with a fluffy top, and he’s holding a sword with both hands. The jacket has shiny buttons, and his pants are tucked into tall boots. The boy’s serious face and stiff pose make him look older than he is. The artist paid close attention to the folds in his clothes and the way the light hits his face. Check out the Victoria and Albert Museum to see more prints like this.
A lithograph print from 1853 shows Prince Arthur at age three, dressed in a military uniform and holding a musket. The attire, intended to represent a Lieutenant in the 1st Foot Guards, features details more closely aligned with the 3rd Foot Guards, or Scots Fusilier Guards. The uniform was later passed down to his son, who wore it as a child. Queen Victoria noted in her journal that the uniform had become too tight for the younger child, despite fitting the prince at the same age.
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Franz Xaver Winterhalter (20 April 1805 – 8 July 1873) was a German painter and lithographer, known for his flattering portraits of royalty and upper-class society in the mid-19th century.
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