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Dún Laoghaire, Ireland 1890s

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Catherine Hilda Duleep Singh (on the left)

Princess Catherine Hilda Duleep Singh (27 October 1871 – 8 November 1942), was the second daughter of H.H. Maharaja Sir Duleep Singh and Maharani Bamba. She was educated in England and in 1894 she was presented at Court. She became a suffragist with her sisters, but did not take part in Emmeline Pankhurst’s Suffragette movement though her sister Sophia did.

She was a lifelong romantic companion of governess Lina Schäfer and from 1904 lived with her in Germany until the latter’s death in 1937. She requested her burial at Lina’s side in her will. Catherine and Lina were instrumental in aiding many Jewish families escape from Germany during World War II.  

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Ernst Becker, Maharaja Duleep Singh at Osborne, 1854 x

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Photograph of three daughters (L-R: Bamba, Catherine, and Sophia) of Maharaja Duleep Singh and Bamba Müller in 1895.

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"La Nappe Mauve, Villefranche-sur-Mer" by Henri Le Sidaner, 1929. Oil on canvas, 65.4 x 80.6 cm. French artist 1862-1939.

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Henri Le Sidaner (French, 1862-1939), Les Maisons sur la rivière [Houses on the River], c.1938. Oil on board, 18 ⅛ x 14 ¾ in.

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Henri Le Sidaner - Country house among roses (1913)

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Henri Le Sidaner - Le Jardin Blanc au Clair du Lune, Gerberoy (1930)

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Rudolf Swoboda - Naslej (1886-88)

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Girl from Damascus, Rudolf Swoboda

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Portraits by Viennese painter Rudolf Swoboda (1859 - 1914)

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Rudolf Swoboda - Shanker Girr (1886-1888)

This is one of over 40 portraits of people from the Middle East and South Asia painted at the request of Queen Victoria. Shanker Girr was a Fakir (an ascetic holy man or mystic) from Malabum, Nepal, aged 23 at the time of his sitting for Swoboda. He wears the orange robes traditionally associated with Buddhist monks, but his long, shoulder-length hair has not been shaved close to the scalp. Rudolph Swoboda sailed for India on 7 October 1886. Queen Victoria paid for his passage and gave him £300 to cover his travelling expenses. In return he was to provide the Queen with sketches worth £300. The Queen gave Swoboda specific instructions: ‘The Sketches Her Majesty wishes to have – are of the various types of the different nationalities. They should consist of heads of the same size as those already done for The Queen, and also small full lengths, as well as sketches of landscapes, buildings, and other scenes. Her Majesty does not want any large pictures done at first, but thinks that perhaps you could bring away material for making them should they eventually be wished for.’ When Sir Howard Elphinstone, a contemporary, saw some of the sketches in 1888 he observed: ‘They are very clever indeed, most characteristic of the different types, & drawn with wonderful vigour’. When Queen Victoria received them she was very pleased and thought them ‘such lovely heads… beautiful things’. (source)

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Heinrich Hermanns (German, 1862 - 1942) - Naples. A view across the city towards the harbour and Mount Vesuvius

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Richard Müller - Plaster Busts in the Studio (1926)

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James Raeburn Middleton (British, 1855-1931) - Burmese Girl Kneeling