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QUEEN VICTORIA'S MAHARAJAH | The many lives of Duleep Singh with Eugene Barilo von Reisberg

Wednesday 30 Jul 2014, 10:15 AM – 11:45 AM

Fascinated by one of Franz Xaver Winterhalter’s most exotic paintings, Portrait of Maharajah Duleep Singh, Eugene Barilo von Reisberg delved into the sitter’s biography and uncovered a fascinating tale of an Indian child prince; the legend of the fabled Koh-i-Noor diamond, one of the most important jewels in the British Royal Collection; and the Indian presence at the court of Queen Victoria, the first British monarch to be formally styled the Empress of India.

EUGENE BARILO VON REISBERG is a writer, researcher, and art consultant. He is an internationally acknowledged authority on Franz Xaver Winterhalter, the 19th century elite portrait specialist, and he is currently completing a doctoral thesis on the artist at the University of Melbourne.

See also Eugene Barilo von Reisberg’s lecture series CAPTURING GLAMOUR | Society portraiture during the long 19th century, 1789-1914 below.

Franz Xaver Winterhalter (1805-1873), The Maharaja Duleep Singh (1838-93), 1854, The Royal Collection, England, RCIN 403843, Royal Collection Trust/© Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2014

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