Portrait of H.R.H the Princess Sophia (1777-1848), three-quarter-length, in a black dress with white gauze sleeves and a white shawl embroidered with poppies, seated by a pillar, Windsor beyond

Details

Robinson, after Sir William Beechey
Portrait of H.R.H the Princess Sophia (1777-1848), three-quarter-length, in a black dress with white gauze sleeves and a white shawl embroidered with poppies, seated by a pillar, Windsor beyond
with old handwritten inscriptions 'H.R.H. the Princess Sophia, Daughter of King George, III, Nat 1777, Ob, 1848, Sir Wm, Beechey, Pinxt Given, By H.R.H. to Sir John Conroy Bt.' (on back of canvas) and 'H.R.H. the Princess Sophia, Daughter of King George III, 1777 Ob. 1848 Sir Wm Beechey, Pinx - Given by H.R.H. to Sir Conroy Bt.' (on stretcher) and with an old label 'HER ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCESS SOPHIA; DAUGHTER OF KING GEORGE III A Copy from the Original Painted by Robinson; in the Year 182[?] for the Princess Mary, Duchess of Gloucester PRESENTED BY THE PRINCESS SOPHIA, TO SIR JOHN CONROY BART. 1841' (on the stretcher)
oil on unlined canvas
50½ x 40 in. (128.4 x 101.2 cm.)

Provenance

H.R.H. Princess Mary Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh.
Sir John Conroy Bt., 1841.

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Lot Essay

Princess Sophia was born at Buckingham Palace, one of the six daughters of King George III and Queen Charlotte. She spent most of her life as a companion of her mother; the Princesses were not allowed to mix with anyone outside the Royal Court. Tragically, for her last ten years she was blind, and died on 27 May 1848 at Vicarage Place, Kensington. She was buried at Kensal Green Cemetery in London rather than at Windsor Castle, as she wished to be near her brother, Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex.

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