Jean-Sylvain Van de Weyer was a Belgian politician who served as the Belgian Minister at the Court of St. James's, effectively the ambassador to the United Kingdom, and briefly, as the prime minister of Belgium, all under King Leopold I.
Sylvain Van de Weyer
Princess Louise (1848–1939) and Sylvain's daughter Louise (died 1896), by James Valentine (1815–1879), circa 1866–1870.
Image: Carte de visite of Sylvain Van de Weyer (1802 1874)
Image: Elizabeth Anne Sturgis Bates, Madame Van de Weyer (d.1878)
Leopold I was the first King of the Belgians, reigning from 21 July 1831 until his death in 1865.
Portrait, 1856
Ehrenburg Palace in Coburg, where Leopold was born in 1790, pictured c. 1900
Engraving of the wedding of Charlotte and Leopold in 1816
Portrait of Leopold by George Dawe (circa 1818–1825)