Prince Alamayou, age 7

Reginald Easton, portrait of Alamaiou, 1868, Royal Collection.

The Royal Collection contains this lovely miniature of Prince Alamayou,  the Ethiopian hostage brought to Britain after the battle for Magdala and the death of his father Tewodros.   Nowadays more correctly spelt as Alemayehu, he was made a ward of the British crown and became an object of special attention from Victoria,  partly because his 'guardian', Captain Speedy lived on the Isle of Wight near the royal residence of Osborne House. 

This portrait by a very obscure artist  (in watercolour on ivory)  measures just 95 by 80mm.  It was painted at Freshwater on the Isle of Wight, which must mean at the same time as Alamayou was photographed by Julia Margaret Cameron, who had a house at Freshwater, as well as by other local photographers..

Julia Margaret Cameron, Alemayehu, 1868

Alemayehu was sent off to be educated at British public schools and then to train for the army.  Sadly he died of pleurisy in 1879 and was buried at Windsor Castle.  Queen Victoria's art collection contains a number of pottrait images, see here

https://www.rct.uk/collection/themes/trails/black-and-asian-history-and-victorian-britain/prince-alamayu

including a life-size bronze bust by sculptor F.J. Williamson commissioned by Victoria after Alemayehu's death and now at Osborne.  

F J Williamson, Prince Alemayou, 1880, Royal Collection

The various spoils that the British seized from the royal treasury in Magdala are now in the V&A