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

Victoria Eugenie Julia Ena of Battenberg (24 October 1887 – 15 April 1969) was Queen of Spain as the wife of King Alfonso XIII from their marriage on 31 May 1906 until 14 April 1931, when the Spanish Second Republic was proclaimed. A Hessianprincess 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 were accorded the lower rank of Serene Highness, Victoria Eugenie was born with the rank of Highness due to a Royal Warrant issued in 1886 by Queen Victoria.

The author of our watercolour is British female painter Keturah Anne Collings (1862-1948). She started her artistic career as a portrait artist and miniaturist. In 1887 she married Arthur Albert Esme Collings (1859-1936). During the late 1900s she assisted her husband at his photography studio in Brighton and Hove before opening her own London photographic studio in the early 1900s.

Collings worked creating portraits, both painted and photographic, until her death in 1948 in London. Her work is in the collections of the National Portrait Gallery, London (as Keturah Ann Collings) and the Tate Gallery (as Keturah Collings).

Inscription: signed upper right.

Technique: watercolour on paper, original period frame.

Measurements: unframed 12 1/3" x 18 2/3 " (43,5 x 58 cm ), framed w 19 1/5 " x h 25" (48,5 x 63 cm)

Condition: in very good condition