Of Royal interest: A late 19th century portrait miniature set, composed of five oval miniatures of the Royal family, glazed, in gilt frames, depicting Queen Victoria, Victoria and Albert, her mother Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, her eldest son Albert Prince of Wales as a child, her eldest daughter Victoria as an infant, and a further portrait by another hand of an army officer wearing breast star, in rectangular frame, all mounted in velvet lined easel-back case, largest length 3.7cm. £800-£1,000

Possibly produced at the time of Queen Victoria’s Golden or Diamond jubilees, 1887 and 1897.
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First: Young Queen Victoria in coronation robes wearing the State diadem, after painting by Franz Xavier Winterhalter, 1859
Second: Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, after early photograph by Roger Fenton, 30 June 1854
Third: Portrait of Queen Victoria’s mother, Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, after Winterhalter, 1857
Fourth: Albert Edward Prince of Wales, after Winterhalter, circa 1850
Fifth: the Princess Royal, Princess Victoria, after Winterhalter, circa 1840.