Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.13975

    Portrait of George Frederick Leopold, King of the Belgians

    Date
    1844
    Sitter
    Creator
    Unknown, Engraver
    Object type
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 216mm
    width (print): 152mm
    Subject
    Description
    Three-quarter length portrait of George Frederick Leopold, King of the Belgians standing in three-quarter turn to the right and looking out to viewer. He wears military uniform of short jacket with epaulettes and breeches. Decorated in insignia and holding a sword in this left hand. In a landscape setting with the Castle of Laeken in the background [?].

    Inscribed ‘HIS MAJESTY LEOPOLD, KING OF THE BELGIANS.’
    Plate to the Illustrated London News.

    George Frederick Leopold, King of the Belgians (1790-1865) elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1816.
    Associated place
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