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The First Council of Queen Victoria

1838
Oil on canvas
Royal Collection, Windsor

Wilkie's inaccuracy as a portrait painter incurred the wrath of the young Queen Victoria and led to his dismissal on account of the failure of his State Portrait and The First Council of Queen Victoria. which she described with characteristic forthrightness as 'one of the worst pictures I have ever seen, both as to painting and likenesses'.