Osborne House: The Sitting Room of the elder Princesses; and The Bedroom of the elder Princesses, after James Roberts (c. 1800-1867)

In 1857 Roberts had been commissioned by the Prince Consort to depict views of rooms in the palaces selected by the Princess Royal, to take to Berlin, following her marriage. The Princess chose views of the bedrooms and sitting-rooms which she had shared with Princess Alice in the royal palaces, including Osborne.
Corden worked extensively for the Queen, making a great number of accomplished copies of pictures in the royal collection, including interiors of Frogmore House and watercolours by other artists including James Roberts, see D. Millar, The Victorian Watercolours and Drawings in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen, London, 1995, nos. 1258-1270.
The upright painting on the far wall, to the left of the mirror, in the sitting-room of the elder Princesses, is J.C. Horsley's L'Allegro and il Penseroso, catalogued in O. Millar's catalogue The Victorian Pictures in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen, Cambridge, 1992, no. 345; it was commissioned by Prince Albert as a Christmas gift to Queen Victoria and was presented to her in December 1850.