She doesn't in any of her portraits, so it humanizes her, I think, for the first time." Dixon added: "Queen Victoria was always very up-to-date with technology and she was interested in art.

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idealized portraits of European royalty that were influenced by the Rococo and Neoclassical painting. Over the course of his career, the artist was commissioned to paint Empress Eugenie, Princess ...