Previously unseen, an exhibition set for next year at Buckingham Palace in The Queen's Gallery showcases artwork by Queen Victoria and her husband Prince Albert from the years of 1839-1861 (the period from their engagement to Prince Albert's death)including a self-portrait sketch by the Queen herself.
The Exhibit, called "Victoria & Albert: Art & Love" will feature ten works by Victoria including sketches, etchings, and oil paintings on varous subjects like the royal children, the servants' childen, and landscapes doen in an accomplished hand. As well as gifs of art exchanged by the couple done their own hands and comissioned from other (from paintings to jewelry pieces.)
Entitled "Ball dress May 19, 1845" done shortly before her 26th birthday, it shows her as a seriously young woman with an elegant dress. Giving a perviously unknown view into how the young queen viewed herself. It presents a different picture than that known from popular history of a severe and stiff monarch of later years, reigning over the stringent Victorian era.
Jonathan Marsden, deputy surveyor of the Queen's Works of Art and the exhibition's chief curator this exhibition will overturn the current image of the Queen and reveal a new side to the public. Which was an artistic and romantic side kept hidden from the public for as long as it was prolific. Both her and Albert sharred and exchanged gifts of art, she was versed in the fine arts and he in design.
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