Queen Henrietta Maria (1609–1669)
after Sir Anthony Van Dyck (Antwerp 1599 - London 1641)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1640 - 1699
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1067 x 813 mm (42 x 32 in)
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Charlecote Park, Warwickshire
NT 533877
Caption
Henrietta Maria was the Queen consort of Charles I, but was never actually crowned. She was the mother of both Charles II and James II. As a French Catholic she was unpopular in England, and having lived through the execution of her husband, and the Restoration, she died in Paris in 1669. This portrait type, of which there are various copies, belongs to a type generally associated with that mentioned in a letter written by Charles I to Colonel Wheatley, in which he says: “There are three pictures which are not mine. My wife’s picture, in blue satin, sitting in a chair, you must send to Mrs Kirk.” Mrs Kirk was one of the Queen’s dressers.
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Queen Henrietta Maria (1609-1669), after Sir Anthony Van Dyck (Antwerp 1599 - London 1641). A three-quarter-length portrait of Henrietta Maria. She is seated to the left and has a direct gaze with the spectator. She is wearing a blue dress with white detail to the sleeves. She is holding roses in her left hand and there is a crown on the table to the left. In a carved 18th Century giltwood frame that is part of a collection of five matching frames in the Library at Charlecote.
Provenance
On loan from Sir Edmund Fairfax-Lucy, 6th Bt (b. 1949)
Makers and roles
after Sir Anthony Van Dyck (Antwerp 1599 - London 1641), artist