Claim: James Bromley, who is known for his portraits of Duchess of Kent, who is a German princess and the mother of Queen Victoria, and the Earl of Carlisle, died in 1838.
Evidence: Among his best plates may be enumerated portraits of the Duchess of Kent, after George Hayter; John, Earl Russell, after Hayter; and the Earl of Carlisle, when Lord Morpeth, after Thomas Heathfield Carrick; 'Falstaff,' after Henry Liverseege; and 'La Zingarella,' after Octavius Oakley. Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (17 August 1786 – 16 March 1861), later Duchess of Kent and Strathearn, was a German princess and the mother of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom. James Bromley (1800–1838), was an English mezzotint-engraver.