Queen Victoria Enthroned in the House of Lords

Queen Victoria Enthroned in the House of Lords is an 1838 portrait painting by the English artist George Hayter. It depicts Queen Victoria sitting on the throne in the House of Lords. Contemporaries reviews criticised it for making the young queen look too severe. The Examiner felt the painting was "too formal, grave and determined in the assumed expression to do justice to that open, lively and gregarious character".^[1] The work was displayed at the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition of 1838.

Queen Victoria Enthroned in the House of Lords
Artist	George Hayter
Year	1838
Type	Oil on canvas, portrait painting
Dimensions	269 cm × 221 cm (106 in × 87 in)
Location	Guildhall Art Gallery, London

Today the painting is in the collection of the Guildhall Art Gallery, having been presented by Victoria to the City of London in 1839.^[2] Hayter produced two different paintings of the queen that year.^[3] The other, showing the queen seated at Westminster Abbey on the day of her Coronation, remains in the Royal Collection.^[4] A copy of the this, produced by Hayter in 1863, is now in the National Portrait Gallery.^[5]