Victoria Eugenie Julia Ena Of Battenberg, Queen Of Spain And Wife Of King Alfonso XIII

High quality watercolor portrait of Victoria Eugenie Julia Ena of Battenberg (1887-1969), Queen of Spain and wife of King Alfonso XIII.

Victoria Eugenie Julia Ena of Battenberg (24 October 1887 – 15 April 1969) was Queen of Spain, wife of King Alfonso XIII, from their marriage on 31 May 1906 until 14 April 1931, when the Second Spanish Republic was proclaimed. A Hessian princess by birth, she was a member of the Battenberg family, a morganatic branch of the House of Hesse-Darmstadt.
She was the youngest granddaughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. Unlike other members of the Battenberg family, who held the lesser rank of Serene Highness, Victoria Eugenie was born with the rank of Highness thanks to a royal warrant issued in 1886 by Queen Victoria.

The author of our watercolor is the British painter Keturah Anne Collings (1862-1948). She began her artistic career as a portraitist and miniaturist. In 1887, she married Arthur Albert Esme Collings (1859-1936). In the late 1900s, she assisted her husband in his photography studio in Brighton and Hove before opening her own studio in London in the early 1900s. Collings produced portraits, both painted and photographic, until her death in London in 1948. Her works are included in the collections of the National Portrait Gallery, London (as Keturah Ann Collings) and the Tate Gallery (as Keturah Collings).

Inscription: Signed upper right.
Medium: Watercolor on paper, original period frame.
Dimensions: Unframed: 43.5 x 58 cm, Framed: W 48.5 x H 63 cm.
Condition: In very good condition.