Alexander Stuart-Hill (1889 – 20 February 1948) was a Scottish portrait and landscape artist who, while living in Paris, was engaged to Princess Louise of Battenberg before her marriage to King Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden.
[5] His portrait subjects included the Duchesse de Choiseuil-Praslin c. 1914,[a] Lilias Livingstone Mackinnon c. 1920,[b] Admiral Sir H. Goodenough King-Hall (1920), Arthur Greenhow Lupton, First Pro-Chancellor of the University of Leeds (1923), Turner Layton (1927),[3] Florence Mills (1927),[citation needed] and the Baroness Posznanska (1945).
[9] His landscape subjects focused on his native Scotland as well as other parts of Europe, including views of Santa Margherita, Italy (c. 1927–1928) and Early Spring Sunshine in Amalfi.
She was the younger daughter of Prince Louis of Battenberg, an admiral in the British Royal Navy who renounced his German titles and anglicised the family name to "Mountbatten" at the behest of George V in 1917.
[1] Attendees included members of the Bright young things, Evelyn Waugh, Florence Mills, Alice Delysia, Turner Layton, and Clarence "Tandy" Johnstone.