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It depicts the opening of the Great Exhibition at the Crystal Palace in Hyde Park on 1 May 1852. [2] Queen Victoria, Prince Albert and their children are on the raised dais in the centre of the painting, surrounded by government ministers, other leading figures such as the Duke of Wellington and foreign delegations.
Prince Albert, Queen Victoria's consort, was an enthusiastic promoter of the self-financing exhibition; the government was persuaded to form the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 to establish the viability of hosting such an exhibition. Queen Victoria visited three times with her family, and 34 times on her own. [5]
The Victoria and Albert Museum (abbreviated V&A) in London is the world's largest museum of applied arts, decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.8 million objects. [3] It was founded in 1852 and named after Queen Victoria and Prince Albert.
Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death in 1901. Her reign of 63 years and 216 days—which was longer than those of any of her predecessors —constituted the Victorian era .
Gifted to former President Rutherford B. Hayes by Queen Victoria in 1880, the Resolute Desk is a double pedestal partner's desk made from oak timbers of the British Ship HMS Resolute, according to ...
Henry Courtney Selous – The Opening of the Great Exhibition by Queen Victoria; John Steell – The Duke of Wellington (equestrian bronze, Edinburgh) Thomas Sully - Pocahontas; Frederick August Wenderoth and Charles Christian Nahl – Miners in the Sierras; Edwin White - Pocahontas Informing John Smith of a Conspiracy of the Indians
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The Opening of the Great Exhibition by Queen Victoria, 1852 The Birth of Venus by Selous, 1852. In 1818 Selous entered the Royal Academy Schools and also exhibited his first work, a Portrait of a Favourite Cat (location untraced), at the Academy. He submitted animal portraits for the next three years before embarking on human portraiture.