Princess Charlotte of Belgium (1840
A copy by Simpson after the miniature of Princess Charlotte of Belgium painted by Sir William Ross in the year of her marriage to the Archduke Maximilian of Austria for the sitters father, Leopold I, King of the Belgians.John Simpson (1811-after 1871) was trained as a porcelain painter at the Derby porcelain factory before moving to London in 1845.  He soon established a practice as a miniature painter specialising in works on enamel, and fulfilled the first of many commissions for Queen Victoria in that...
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