Triples - twelve portraits of three

Three brothers, by József Czauczik, 1828.

George, 2nd Earl Harcourt, his wife Elizabeth, and brother William, by Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1780-81. The Earl and Countess are wearing their coronation robes.

Unknown. Courtesy Ralf De Jonge.

Moritz Christian, Reichsgraf von Fries, his wife Maria Theresia Josepha, and their son Moritz, by François Gérard, 1805.

The 1st Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull, the 2nd Earl of Burlington, and the 3rd Baron Berkeley of Stratton, by Michael Dahl, circa 1690-1700.

Jaromír Funke, Josef Sudek, Adolf Schneeberger, by Adolf Schneeberger, 1925.

La famille Bergeret de Grandcourt, by Jean-Laurent Mosnier, circa 1785.

Unknown, by George Hartwell, circa 1850.

Queen Alexandra with her daughters, Princess Victoria of Wales and Princess Louise, Duchess of Fife, 1905.

Triple Portrait (Sister and Brothers), by Károly Ferenczy, 1911.

The daughters of Johann Julius von Vieth und Golßenau and his wife Johanna Juliane, née Krieg von Bellicken, by Anton Graff , circa 1775.

Unknown, tintype, circa 1890.

King, Queen, Princess - three portraits by de László, 1907

Edward VII.

Queen Alexandra.

Princess Victoria.

Victoria Alexandra Olga Mary (6 July 1868 – 3 December 1935), granddaughter and namesake of Queen Victoria, fourth child and second daughter of Edward VII and Queen Alexandra, younger, beloved sister of King George V. Born while her father was Prince of Wales, she and her siblings were very close - likewise close with their extended family in Denmark, Russia, and Greece - but known for their timidity outside of the family circle. Unlike both her elder and younger sisters, she never married or had a family of her own. Though there had been no shortage of suitors for her quite prestigious hand, every prospect for marriage had been strongly discouraged by her domineering mother; she would spend her life as Alexandra's constant companion. Known in the family as "Toria" - and later, too often, as "Poor Toria" - it was only in the last ten years of her life, after the death of her mother, and already plagued with a long list of illnesses, that Princess Victoria was able to have her own home and live as she wished. She died at Coppins, her country house in Buckinghamshire, at the age of sixty-seven.

Princess Victoria was thirty-nine in the year this portrait was painted.