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  1. Sitter associated with 548 portraits. Artist associated with 5 portraits. Queen Victoria succeeded to the throne shortly after her eighteenth birthday in July 1837. She was daughter of the Duke of Kent, who was the fourth son of George III.

  2. photogravure on paper (sheet: 81.0 cm x 52.0 cm, image: 75.5 cm x 46.0 cm) Victoria (1819-1901) was queen of Great Britain and Ireland from 1837 to 1901, from the age of eighteen until her death nearly 64 years later.

  3. Sovereign of Queen Victoria (1839) by Royal Mint The Royal Mint Museum. The portrait of Victoria, approved for the coinage in 1838, is undoubtedly a numismatic and artistic masterpiece. The...

  4. Victoria (18191901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 1837 until her death in 1901. The daughter of Edward, Duke of Kent, and his wife, Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfield, she ascended the throne at eighteen on the death of her uncle, King William IV, all of her father’s older brothers having died ...

  5. Queen Victoria is probably the most painted and photographed personality in history. Her long reign and the growth of illustrated newspapers and magazines resulted in a flood of popular images, besides a vast number of state and family portraits.

  6. Queen Victoria succeeded to the throne shortly after her eighteenth birthday in July 1837. She was daughter of the Duke of Kent , who was the fourth son of George III . Her reign was the second longest in British history, celebrating her Golden Jubilee in 1887 and Diamond Jubilee in 1897.

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  8. In 1860 Queen Victoria agreed to have her portrait made and issued, along with those of other members of the royal family, as a series of cartes de visite (visiting cards). The format was already fashionable, and for the first time people were able to own a photographic portrait of the queen.