The young Queen Victoria was painted in 1840, wearing her long string of pearls (56 pearls are seen in front of the painting*) as well as a large brooch, set with seven round pearls and four pear-shaped pearls with diamonds.
Leslie Fields noted in her book: "a large diamond-shaped design set with numerous diamonds, eight pearls and three pendant pearl drops.” I believe the center pearl was also a pear shaped pearl and was turned over in later times.
In her will, Queen Victoria left the pearl and diamond cluster brooch to the crown. Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother and Queen Elizabeth II are both pictured wearing this historic pearl brooch.
*These are probably the Hanoverian Pearls. Prince Albert had told: that the pearls were the finest in Europe, and it is ... they were, and why it had been difficult to identify those which were “Hanoverian”. A pearl necklace, known as the Hanoverian State pearl necklace, or the Hanoverian pearls,the six long rows of pearls,which came to Britain with King George I and included pearls once owned by Mary, Queen of Scots. Queen Victoria left the pearls to the Crown in her will>>.
*A pearl necklace of fifty pearls, is still part of the Royal Collection,once owned by Queen Caroline and another pearl necklace of 46 pearls the ‘Queen Anne pearl necklace ’ are also part of Britain's Royal Collection.These necklaces, are always worn together and were given by the King and Queen to Princess Elizabeth the future Queen.
Sources: The Royal Collection;
Thank you Laura for your help.
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