File:Annie Dixon portrait of Princess Beatrice.jpg

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William Charles Bell (1831-1904)
After Annie Dixon  (1817–1901)  wikidata:Q28943178
 
After Annie Dixon
Description British painter
Date of birth/death 1817 Edit this at Wikidata 15 February 1901 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth Horncastle
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artist QS:P170,Q4233718,P1877,Q28943178
Description
English: Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom (1857-1944)
Caption from the museum's website

William Charles Bell trained as an enamel painter in Geneva before securing his first royal commission in March 1850. From then onwards, he was employed constantly by Queen Victoria for almost 50 years, painting enamel miniatures, often copied after Franz Xaver Winterhalter's oil portraits, for her own collection and for distribution as gifts. His enamels were usually smaller than those by Henry Pierce Bone, William Essex or John Simpson, whose services she had previously employed, and many were set into items of jewellery, particularly Maid of Honour brooches. Queen Victoria's last payment to Bell, in July 1899, was for '6 Miniatures on Gold for Maid of Honour brooches'. Owing to his advanced years, the Queen then gave him no further work but awarded him an annual pension of £20.

Bell's enamel is copied after Annie Dixon's miniature painted earlier in the same year (420308).

Date Inscribed 1859
Medium enamel on copper
medium QS:P186,Q213371;P186,Q753,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 4.5 cm (1.7 in); width: 4.3 cm (1.6 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,4.5U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,4.3U174728
institution QS:P195,Q1459037
Object history Provenance: Commissioned by Queen Victoria from the artist in 1859; given by her to the Prince Consort on 24 May 1859
Inscriptions Inscribed on the counter-enamel in pencil by a later hand: Princess Beatrice / 1859
Source/Photographer Royal Collection RCIN 422047

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