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(Richard) Napoleon Montanari (born about 1813) was a wax modeller; his wife Madame Montanari (born Charlotte Augusta Dalton in Grantham in about 1818) was a dollmaker who specialised in producing exquisitely dressed dolls; their elder son Richard Napoleon Montanari (born about 1840) was also a wax modeller and doll maker.\r\n\r\nLike the Pierotti family, the Montanaris made a number of dolls representing royalty.  This doll was bought in 1851 and shows the seventh child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, Prince Arthur William Patrick Albert who was at that point the most recent addition to their family, born on 1st May 1850.","physicalDescription":"Baby doll with poured wax shoulder head, lower arms and hands, on a body of stuffed white glazed cotton with wax over composition legs.  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It was given to Sophie Thursley by her mother when she was 10 years old.","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"On upper legs"}],"objectHistory":"The doll was bought at the Great Exhibition by Mrs William Thursley, the donor's great grandmother, for her daughter Sophie (b 1840), the donor's great aunt.  It represents Queen Victoria's seventh child and third son, Arthur, born May 1 1850.  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