This April, the V&A will reopen its jewellery gallery with 80 new additions, including Queen Victoria’s sapphire coronet. Among the museum’s most popular galleries, more than 4.2 million people have ...

Victoria and Albert Museum, London Queen Victoria’s sapphire and diamond coronet, designed by Prince Albert, made by Joseph Kitching ... wore it in a portrait by Franz Xaver Winterhalter.

It was made by Joseph Kitching ... the first and most renowned portrait of the Queen painted by Franz Xaver Winterhalter. “The painting depicts Victoria as a figure of youth and beauty, regal ...

Photo Josse/Leemage//Getty Images Victoria’s portrait by Franz Xaver Winterhalter. Prince Albert designed the coronet for his wife in 1840, the year the two married. The queen would go on to ...

A set of 19th-century drawings by a teenage Queen Victoria will be put up for auction ... William Leighton Leitch and Franz Xaver Winterhalter. She often drew from what she observed around her ...

Queen Victoria wrote the experience of loss sent ... In 1852, she bought him Florinda, a large painting by Franz Xaver Winterhalter that depicts a group of semi-naked women lounging around a ...

Even more so when one realises that the lovely young woman languorously baring her shoulders is none other than Queen ... Franz Xaver Winterhalter. By all accounts it was well received. Victoria ...

Queen Victoria ... collection of treasures. Victoria's provocative 'sexy picture' is sure to receive a lot of attention when it is featured in the series. Painted by Franz Xaver Winterhalter ...

130.8 x 101.6 cm. (51.5 x 40 in.) ...

Both the coronet and brooch also featured in one of the most famous official portraits of the young Queen Victoria, in 1842, by Franz Xaver Winterhalter. The coronet was given by King George V and ...