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Queen Victoria In Her Coronation Robes

by Charles Robert Leslie

1838
oil on canvas
Height: 45.7 cm (unframed) Width: 61 cm (unframed)

Victoria and Albert Museum

London, UK

Leslie, Charles Robertnotes
Some months after her coronation in June 1837, Queen Victoria posed for this portrait. It shows the Queen dressed in her coronation robes and kneeling at the altar in Westminster Abbey. Even this small sketch reveals Leslie's skill as an artist who was able to combine the intimate and the historic in a single scene. This point was reinforced by the...
Sancho Panza

by Charles Robert Leslie

1839
oil on panel
Height: 30.5 cm Width: 22.8 cm

Victoria and Albert Museum

London, UK

Leslie, Charles Robertnotes
In Cervantes' novel Don Quixote, the adventures of the Don's servant, the lazy, greedy and completely unidealistic Sancho Panza, was the source of many humorous and, to modern tastes, cruel adventures. Here the gourmand Sancho Panza is shown enduring what was to him a torment. A physician is waving an ivory wand and peremptorily ordering his food to...
The Principal Characters In The Merry Wives Of Windsor

by Charles Robert Leslie

ca. 1838
oil on canvas
Height: 93.3 cm (estimate) Width: 133.2 cm (estimate)

Victoria and Albert Museum

London, UK

Leslie, Charles Robert 
The Toilette

by Charles Robert Leslie

ca. 1849
oil on panel
Height: 30.5 cm (estimate) Width: 25.4 cm (estimate)

Victoria and Albert Museum

London, UK

Leslie, Charles Robertnotes
This picture was also called The Necklace. The sitter was reputedly a beauty of mixed Irish and Spanish descent, famous for her 'raven black hair and arched eyebrows'. She also sat for Leslie's picture of Griselda
Woman in a Turkish Costume (A Turkish Woman by a Stream)

by John Singer Sargent

1907
Watercolor on gouache paper
35.9 x 50.8 cm (14 1/8 x 20 in.)

Victoria and Albert Museum

London, UK

Sargent, John Singer 
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