Beechey, William - Adelaide, Queen Consort of William IV, 1830 - art postcard

Art Postcard
• Work of art title: Adelaide, Queen Consort of William IV, 1792-1849 (1830)
• Artist (if known): Sir William Beechey
• Media or other details:  painting
• Publisher / Gallery: National Portrait Gallery, London
• Postally used:  no
• Stamp & postmark details (if relevant): n/a
• Size: modern
• Notes & condition details: bumped corner

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Stock No.: A783

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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information:

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Sir William Beechey (12 December 1753 – 28 January 1839) was an English portrait-painter.

Beechey was born at Burford, Oxfordshire, on 12 December 1753, the son of William Beechey and Hannah Read. Both his parents died when he was still quite young, and he and his siblings were brought up by his uncle Samuel.^[1] He was interested in painting from an early age, being admitted to the Royal Academy Schools in 1772, although, according to some accounts, his family intended him to follow his uncle Samuel into a legal career.^[2]

In the early part of his painting life Beechey specialised in small-scale full-length portraits.^[3] Between 1782 and 1787 he lived in Norwich, and eventually painted four works for the collection of civic portraits hung in St Andrew's Hall in the city, only one was done during his residence there.^[4]

Beechey returned to London in 1787. Eventually he came to the notice of the royal family, and in 1793 painted a full-length picture of Queen Charlotte, who appointed him her official portrait painter. In the same year he was elected an associate of the Royal Academy.^[5] He painted not only the portraits of the royal family, but of nearly all the most famous or fashionable people of the time. His George III and the Prince of Wales reviewing troops a large composition showing the king and prince surrounded by a brilliant staff on horseback, was painted in 1798. It obtained for him the honour of knighthood, and his election as a full member of the Royal Academy.^[6] The painting was destroyed in the 1992 Windsor Castle fire.

Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen (Adelaide Amelia Louise Theresa Caroline; 13 August 1792 – 2 December 1849) was the queen consort of the United Kingdom and of Hanover as spouse of William IV of the United Kingdom. Adelaide, the capital city of South Australia, is named after her.^[1]

Adelaide was born on 13 August 1792 at Meiningen, Thuringia, Germany. Her father was George I, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen; and her mother was Luise Eleonore, daughter of Prince Christian of Hohenlohe-Langenburg. She was titled Princess Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, Duchess in Saxony with the style Serene Highness from her birth until the Congress of Vienna (1814–15), when the entire House of Wettin was raised to the style of Highness.

Saxe-Meiningen was a small state, covering about 423 square miles (1,100 km²). It was the most liberal German state and, unlike its neighbours, permitted a free press and criticism of the ruler.^[2]

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