Queen Victoria
Thomas Sully
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Date:1838 -
Style:Romanticism -
Genre:portrait -
Order Oil Painting
reproduction
Queen Victoria
Thomas Sully
In an ingenious take on traditional state portraiture, Sully chose the moment of the queen's literal and physical ascendance in order to convey her dignity and humanity, her femininity and strength. Ironically, she could not gracefully climb stairs. "It gives her pain to ascend or descend steps," Sully noted. "I fear [there is] something wrong in the knee."
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