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PORTRAITS OF CELEBRITIES.
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THE EMPRESS FREDERICK OF GERMANY.


Age 12 months.
From a Miniature by W. C. Ross, A.R.A., Miniature Painter to the Queen.


Age 6.
From a Painting.


Age 18.
From a Picture by F. Winterhalter.


Present day.
From a Photo. by Byrne & Co., Richmond.

BABY, child, bride, and widow—such are the four portraits of the Queen's eldest daughter which we give above. An earlier portrait even than the first of these, and one of the most interesting in existence, is that which the Queen with her own hand depicted of her baby while it was still in swaddling-clothes, and which we have the pleasure of presenting to our readers as the frontispiece of the present number.