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The Royal Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851
The Royal Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851 is an oil painting by the Realist artist Henry Wyndham Phillips. It dates from 1850 and is held in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum.
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The Royal Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851 is an 1850 oil painting by the English artist Henry Wyndham Phillips.
The Royal Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851 is an 1850 oil painting by the English artist Henry Wyndham Phillips. A conversation piece, it depicts portraits of the various member of the Royal Commission established to oversee the Great Exhibition held in Hyde Park the following year.
Seated at the table examining the plans for The Crystal Palace is the prince consort Prince Albert. From left to right the painting includes Charles Wentworth Dilke, Richard Cobden, John Scott Russell, Charles Barry, Henry Cole, Earl Granville, Charles Fox, William Cubitt, Joseph Paxton, Lord John Russell, Prince Albert, Robert Peel, the Earl of Derby and Robert Stephenson. Today the painting is in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum in South Kensington.
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Henry Wyndham Phillips (c. 1820 – 8 December 1868) was a British artist and portrait painter. Although he produced and exhibited a small number of paintings of scriptural subjects early on in his career, he spent most…
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