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John Lucas 1807-1874 PORTRAIT OF PRINCE ALBERT

Sold for £26,400 at Sotheby's on Jun 30, 2005.

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half length, standing, wearing uniform inscribed l.r.:H.R.H. Prince Albert / Painted at Windsor Castle / 1842 and inscribed on the stretcher:The Honble/ Mrs Byron/ for her mother Mrs Wescombe/ July 5th 1845 oil on canvas, in a painted oval, in an ornate Victorian frame PROVENANCE Commissioned directly from the artist for £96-5-0 by George Anson, 8th Baron Byron, by whose wife given to her mother, Mrs Wescombe, of Thrumpton Hall, Nottinghamshire; Thence by descent LITERATURE AND REFERENCES Sir Oliver Millar, The Victorian Pictures in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen, 1992, Text Volume, p.179 CATALOGUE NOTE This work relates to an important portrait of Prince Albert painted by Lucas in 1841-42 which is in the Royal Collection, and was probably painted from the same series of sittings.

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