3-009-005 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The International Exhibition: marble bust of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales by J. Steell, R.S.A., 1862. 'It is stated that the late Prince Consort commended this bust highly, and said that the Queen was greatly delighted with the manner in which Mr. John Steell, the excellent Scotch sculptor, had caught the expression of the young Prince, and that for it Mr. Steell received the unsolicited appointment of "Sculptor to her Majesty for Scotland."...The bust is, indeed, not only interesting as the only one for which his Royal Highness has given sittings, and therefore the only authentic portrait in marble, but it has a great deal of intrinsic merit...the likeness is also undoubtedly faithful both to character and expression. The face of his Royal Highness in this bust is rapidly developing itself into that fixed, manly individuality that we trust long life (which he enters upon with so many happy auspices) will preserve to us many years. Notwithstanding, however, that the forms are fuller and of course more masculine in character, there is still a delicacy about much of the detailed modelling of the features which strongly recall the earlier portraits of her Majesty'. From "Illustrated London News", 1862.