Description
The arcades and Schlossplatz in Coburg by night. Brückner was from a family of painter-decorators, and he himself became a theatrical stage designer and painter. Queen Victoria and Prince Albert acquired a substantial corpus of watercolours by Brückner and his son Max, depicting the landscapes and sights in and around Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, the Duchy of Prince Albert's family. This watercolour is datable after the unveiling of the statue of Duke Ernest I in August 1849, but before the alterations to the Veste Coburg (seen in the distance) in the late 1850s. The Queen and Prince Consort visited Coburg twice, in 1845 and 1860, and the Queen then returned on a number of occasions following Albert's death in 1861. Together, Queen Victoria and Prince Albert mounted many of their watercolour views of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha in three albums, and a surviving typescript list of their contents is presumed to accurately reflect their arrangement. These albums were dismantled around 1930 and many of the watercolours rearranged in the new, topographical, souvenir albums. The first of the albums, from which this watercolour derives, seems to have largely contained watercolours related to the visit of the royal couple in 1845.
Image Licence
All Rights Reserved
Image Credit
Royal Collection Trust/© Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2018
Location
Schlossplatz, Coburg, Bavaria, Germany
Country
Germany
Medium
Watercolour
Tags
Category
Buildings & Architecture
