Carl Emich, Prince of Leiningen (1804-1856)
Artist: Johann Daniel Mottet (Swiss, 1754-1822)
Date: 1818
Medium: Oil on canvas
Collection: Royal Collection Trust, London, United Kingdom
Karl, Prince of Leiningen
Carl, Prince of Leiningen (1804-1856) was the only son of Victoria, Duchess of Kent, by her first marriage to Emich Charles, 2nd Prince of Leiningen. He succeeded his father in 1814, and married, in 1829, Marie, Countess Klebelsberg, a lady-in-waiting to the Dowager Duchess of Saxe-Altenburg. He was created a Knight of the Garter in November 1837. In 1848 he became head of Foreign Affairs in the German Empire. On his death Queen Victoria, his half-sister, mourned him deeply: ‘how impossible it is to realise the dreadful thought that I shall never see his dear, dear face again in this world’. Johann Daniel Mottet (1754-1822) painted miniatures and sober portraits of professional figures in Switzerland, such as Samuel Abraham Gruber, a government official from Bern.
