Lot 99: JOHN LUCAS 1807-1874 PORTRAIT OF PRINCE ALBERT

half length, standing, wearing uniform

inscribed l.r.:H.R.H. Prince Albert / Painted at Windsor Castle / 1842 and inscribed on the stretcher:The Hon^ble/ 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.

111 by 86 cm., 43 1/2 by 34 in.