Statue of Queen Victoria, Kensington Palace

The statue was made to celebrate the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1887 but took some years to complete.

It was commissioned by the Kensington Golden Jubilee Memorial Executive Committee, who sought design proposals.

Princess Louise was reluctant to take up a commission to sculpt her mother, but was persuaded to make a model by her friend, the artist Lawrence Alma-Tadema.

Princess Louise was herself resident at Kensington Palace, and she sculpted the statue at her studio there (although some press reports suggested it was made by her tutor Sir Joseph Edgar Boehm).

A bronze casting of the statue stands in front of the Royal Victoria College, Montreal, now the Strathcona Music Building of McGill University.