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Watercolours Capturing Queen Victoria and Prince Albert's Love of Scotland Go on Display in Edinburgh Friday 23 April 2021 Watercolours capturing Queen Victoria and Prince Albert’s love of Scotland go on display in Edinburgh An exhibition of 80 watercolours collected by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, an evocative visual record of their public and private lives together, opens on Monday 26 April at The Queen’s Gallery, Palace of Holyroodhouse. Victoria & Albert: Our Lives in Watercolour features numerous works by Scottish artists, many of which are on display in Scotland for the first time. Throughout their marriage Victoria and Albert were passionate patrons of watercolour painting and spent happy evenings together organising their thousands of watercolours into albums, as the Queen recalled fondly in her journal. These albums recorded moments of both personal and historic significance, foreign travel and diplomacy, scenes of family life, and the homes they created together. The Queen and her consort travelled frequently around the British Isles and commissioned artists to depict the places they visited. William Wyld’s romanticised view of Manchester, painted to record their visit in 1851, shows an idyllic pastoral foreground contrasted with a mass of smoking chimneys in the distance. The work correlates with Victoria’s own account of the ‘endless chimneys & factories’ in the newly industrialised city. A watercolour by William Leighton Leitch depicting the royal yacht sailing into Granton Pier, on display for the first time, emphasises the warm welcome Victoria and Albert received when they arrived in Edinburgh for their first tour of Scotland in 1842. Victoria wrote afterwards that ‘Edinburgh made a great impression upon us; it is quite beautiful & totally unlike anything I have seen’. William Leighton Leitch, one of Victoria’s favourite watercolourists, was a self-taught Glaswegian artist who became one of the most celebrated Scottish landscape painters of the 19th century. He was also the Queen’s tutor for almost 20 years, and under his supervision she grew to be a talented amateur watercolourist. Her subjects often included her children, such as a watercolour of her third son, Prince Arthur, aged three, painted at Osborne House in 1853. Upon Leitch’s death, Victoria wrote in her journal of her sadness at the passing of ‘dear old Mr Leitch, my kind old drawing Master, such an excellent artist, known to me for so many years, connected with happy & sad times, & with Scotland’. Fittingly, the Palace of Holyroodhouse is the subject of several works in the exhibition. An atmospheric watercolour of Edinburgh at sunset by the Dunfermline-born painter Waller Hugh Paton captures the view Victoria enjoyed on her approach to the Palace from the railway station, looking west over St Margaret’s Loch and Holyrood Park, with Calton Hill and the National Monument in the distance. The Queen was captivated by the ‘ancient Palace of my ancestors’ and gave permission for its historic apartments to be opened to the public for the first time. An interior scene by Edinburgh artist, George Greig, depicts Victoria’s comfortable oak-panelled sitting room, hung with richly coloured tapestries. Today’s visitors can see this room, now known as the Privy Chamber, along with a temporary display in the Lobby of a tartan dress which belonged to Victoria. She and Albert embraced the early 19th- century vogue for tartan, and a watercolour by James Roberts of the Drawing Room at Balmoral demonstrates their enthusiastic incorporation of tartan into interior design. Victoria and Albert shared a romantic view of Scotland, partially inspired by the novels of Sir Walter Scott, admiring the rugged landscape of the Highlands, which Victoria described as ‘beautiful, so wild & grand’. Albert bought the Balmoral Estate in 1852 to create a family home, Balmoral Castle, where Press Office, Royal Collection Trust, York House, St James’s Palace, London SW1A 1BQ T. +44 (0)20 7839 1377, [email protected], www.rct.uk artists were regularly invited to record the scenic views, fishing trips and Gillies’ balls that the royal family enjoyed every autumn. In the years shortly before Albert’s death, he and Victoria made four ‘Great Expeditions’, travelling incognito to scenic spots in the Cairngorms and staying in local inns under pseudonyms such as ‘Lord and Lady Churchill’. On display for the first time is a watercolour by Richard Principal Leitch depicting one such expedition, when the royal party were led on horseback across the river by the Falls of Tarff at the head of Glen Tilt, accompanied by two pipers. Victoria recalled the exhilarating moment in her journal: ‘A few minutes brought us to the celebrated Ford of the Tarff…which is very deep & after heavy rain almost impassable….where the current, from the fine high falls, is very strong…It was quite exciting’. Many artists were kept busy recording the changing appearances of the nine royal children. Franz Xaver Winterhalter’s watercolour of Victoria, Princess Royal (known as Vicky) and Princess Alice, shows the girls dressed in 18th-century costume for their mother’s birthday party in 1850. To mark Vicky’s marriage to Frederick William, Prince of Prussia, eight years later, Albert commissioned a watercolour by Egron Lundgren as a private gift for Victoria. The painting evokes the intimacy and solemnity of the wedding ceremony, which forged new ties between Britain and Germany. The pomp and spectacle of 19th-century Anglo-French diplomacy is chronicled through the exhibition, with watercolours recording Victoria and Albert’s state visits to meet King Louis-Philippe in Normandy and his successor Emperor Napoleon III in Paris, as well as reciprocal visits they hosted at Windsor Castle. Several watercolours document the couple’s trips to Germany, described by Victoria as ‘my dearest Albert’s birthplace & favourite place’. A series of watercolours commissioned by Victoria and Albert to mark the Great Exhibition of 1851 illustrates their desire to record events of public significance. Albert played a leading role in the exhibition’s organisation, and is depicted by Joseph Nash delivering a closing address to thousands of spectators in the Crystal Palace. Other keys moments from Victoria’s reign are captured in watercolour, including the Crimean War and the state funeral for the Duke of Wellington. Following Albert’s untimely death in 1861, the watercolour albums took on even greater significance for Victoria, offering tangible memories of the years spent with her beloved husband. The exhibition’s later works reflect Victoria’s efforts to perpetuate Albert’s memory. The Italian painter Gabriele Carelli captures the elaborate decorative scheme of the newly built Royal Mausoleum at Frogmore, where Albert was laid to rest. Finally, a watercolour by the Glaswegian artist William Simpson, on display for the first time, depicts Victoria in mourning clothes at the unveiling of the memorial to Albert in Charlotte Square in 1876, a landmark in Edinburgh to this day. Ends Victoria & Albert: Our Lives in Watercolour is at The Queen’s Gallery, Palace of Holyroodhouse, 26 April – 3 October 2021. The accompanying publication, Victoria & Albert: Our Lives in Watercolour, is published by Royal Collection Trust, price £22.50 from Royal Collection Trust shops. The Palace of Holyroodhouse will open to visitors from Monday 26 April. The Palace and The Queen’s Gallery remain closed on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Throughout May and June, public programming at the Palace of Holyroodhouse will be themed ‘Queen Victoria’s Palace’, featuring drop-in short talks, historical trails and sketching activities. In August, programming will mark the 250th anniversary of the birth of Sir Walter Scott, whom Victoria and Albert both greatly admired. Activities will explore how Scott’s fiction shaped their love of Scotland. Press Office, Royal Collection Trust, York House, St James’s Palace, London SW1A 1BQ T. +44 (0)20 7839 1377, [email protected], www.rct.uk A digital in-conversation event with the exhibition’s curator, Introducing Victoria and Albert: Our Lives in Watercolour, will take place on 18 May. A facsimile watercolour album was created by the Royal Bindery and the Print Room to mark the bicentenary of Victoria and Albert’s births in 2019. A video documenting the process can be viewed here. Visitor information and tickets for The Queen's Gallery, Palace of Holyroodhouse: www.rct.uk, T. +44 (0)30 3123 7301. Advance booking is essential. Twitter: @RCT Instagram: @royalcollectiontrust Facebook: @royalcollectiontrust A selection of images is available from mediaselect.pa.media. For further information and images, please contact the Royal Collection Trust Press Office, +44 (0)20 7839 1377, [email protected] Notes to Editors Royal Collection Trust, a department of the Royal Household, is responsible for the care of the Royal Collection and manages the public opening of the official residences of The Queen. Income generated from admissions and from associated commercial activities contributes directly to The Royal Collection Trust, a registered charity. The aims of The Trust are the care and conservation of the Royal Collection, and the promotion of access and enjoyment through exhibitions, publications, loans and educational programmes. Royal Collection Trust’s work is undertaken without public funding of any kind. The Royal Collection is among the largest and most important art collections in the world, and one of the last great European royal collections to remain intact. It comprises almost all aspects of the fine and decorative arts, and is spread among some 15 royal residences and former residences across the UK, most of which are regularly open to the public. The Royal Collection is held in trust by the Sovereign for her successors and the nation, and is not owned by The Queen as a private individual. Admission to The Queen’s Gallery, Edinburgh is managed by The Royal Collection Trust, a registered charity in England and Wales (1016972) and in Scotland (SCO39772).
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