AN ENAMEL PORTRAIT MINIATURE OF QUEEN VICTORIA SET IN A GOLD BRACELET

THE MINIATURE ATTRIBUTED TO WILLIAM CHARLES BELL (1831-1904), AFTER FRANZ XAVER WINTERHALTER (1805-1873)

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AN ENAMEL PORTRAIT MINIATURE OF QUEEN VICTORIA SET IN A GOLD BRACELET
THE MINIATURE ATTRIBUTED TO WILLIAM CHARLES BELL (1831-1904), AFTER FRANZ XAVER WINTERHALTER (1805-1873)
the miniature within a turquoise set oval frame and with articulated bracelet, the reverse of the frame engraved with inscription 'To / my dear daughter Louise, / from her affectionate Mother / Victoria R. / March 18, 1855'
The miniature, oval 1 5/8 in. (34 mm.) high, the bracelet 5¼ in. (187 mm.) long

Provenance

Given to Princess Louise (1848-1939) by her mother Queen Victoria on her 7th birthday.

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Lot Essay

The enamel is taken after the full length portrait of Queen Victoria by Franz Xaver Winterhalter painted in 1845 in the Royal Collection (Royal Collection Inventory no. 403054), see O. Miller, The Victorian Pictures in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen, Cambridge, 1992, no. 817. A closely comparable enamel of Queen Victoria, also after Winterhalter and signed and dated by Bell, 1864, is in the Royal Collection (Royal Collection Inventory no. 13964). Two further examples, one signed by Bell and dated 1853 and the other mounted in a bracelet are at Schloss Fasanerie. See V. Remington, Victorian Miniatures in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen, London, 2010 I, no. 19 and 20.

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