Princess Mary of Cambridge (1835-1897), later Duchess of Teck

Henry Tanworth Wells (1828-1903)

Signed and dated 1853

Watercolour on ivory laid on card

8.4 x 7.0 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external)

Royal Collection Trust / © His Majesty King Charles III 2024, by kind permission (RCIN 420290)

Katie Herrington and her co-authors comment on the pleasant "sense of ease and tangible interaction between sitter and viewer" here, as the sitter "gazes out of the miniature at an oblique angle across her left shoulder, which is turned towards the viewer" (272).

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