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Description: | Signed: yes Description: Charlotte Stuart, the subject of this portrait, was the elder daughter of Lord Stuart de Rothesay and a distant relation of Henry Lascelles. She was born in Paris in 1817 and died in Calcutta in 1861. She married the Earl Charles Canning in 1835 and was a Lady of the Bedchamber of Queen Victoria. Franz Winterhalter was a very successful portrait painter amongst the European nobility who greatly admired his ability to mix formal conventions with an intimate painting style. The portrait was made for Queen Victoria. | Subjects: | 1817-1861) portrait (Canning née Stuart Charlotte | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Winterhalter, Franz Xaver (German painter, 1805-1875) Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8688... | Go to resource |
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