Portrait of Leopold I of Belgium is an oil on canvas portrait painting by the German artist Franz Xaver Winterhalter, from 1840. It depicts Leopold I of Belgium.Holden p.145Lemoine p.201
A German-born prince, Leopold had become the first King of the Belgians following the Belgian Revolution of 1830 that overthrew Dutch rule. He married a French princess Louise of Orléans in 1832. He was also the widower of Princess Charlotte of Wales, who had died in 1817, as well as the uncle of Queen Victoria.Scheele & Scheele p.21
The painting was commissioned by Leopold's father-in-law Louis Philippe I for the Musée de l'Histoire de France at the recently refurbished Palace of Versailles. In 1846 Leopold commissioned another portrait from Winterhalter as a gift for Queen Victoria, which remains in the British Royal Collection.
See also Portrait of Prince Leopold, an 1821 painting by Thomas Lawrence
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