King Charles I (1600-1649) and Queen Henrietta Maria (1609–1669)
after Sir Anthony Van Dyck (Antwerp 1599 - London 1641)
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
1800 - 1900
Materials
Pastel on paper
Measurements
650 x 800 mm
Order this imageCollection
Rufford Old Hall, Lancashire
NT 783166
Summary
Pastel on paper, King Charles I (1600-1649) and Queen Henrietta Maria (1609–1669), after Sir Anthony Van Dyck (1599-1641). A double portrait of Charles I in armour and his wife in black with white lace collar. It is a nineteenth-century copy of a seventeenth-century painting in the Pitti Palace, Florence which in turn is after two portraits by Van Dyck in the Royal Collection. In elaborate Florentine-style giltwood frame.
Provenance
Major the Hon. John Breckinridge Fermor-Hesketh (1917-1961) and thence by descent, on loan to the National Trust at Rufford Old Hall; purchased by the National Trust from the executors of the estate of Mrs J.I. Robinson, with the assistance of grants and donations from the V&A Purchase Grant Fund, the J.P. Jacobs Charitable Trust and the National Trust Centres and Associations, North West Region, 2012.
Makers and roles
after Sir Anthony Van Dyck (Antwerp 1599 - London 1641), artist
References
De Bruijn 2013 Emile de Bruijn et al, 'Acquisitions' in National Trust Historic Houses & Collections Annual (Apollo), 2013, pp. 60 - 66, illus. p. 64