Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Queen Alexandra when Princess of Wales, by Josefine Swoboda, 1895



Josefine Swoboda (1861-1924), Austrian artist, from a family of artists; her brother Rudolf painted portraits of Indian subjects that hang at Osborne House.  She was employed by Queen Victoria during the 1890s, during which time she painted numerous fine watercolor portraits of the Queen's family.

Two photographs of the Princess of Wales, by Lafayette, July 1893.  She's wearing the gown seen in Swoboda's portrait.
With the heavy retouching consistently carried out on images of the Princess, the photographic
image ends up seeming less real, less individual that the painting.






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