James, Duke of Cambridge (1663-67) c. 1666-7
Oil on canvas | 150.3 x 104.7 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external) | RCIN 404330
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Painted towards the end of the Duke of Cambridge’s short life, the young Duke is aged just three or four but is dressed as a miniature adult. Shown standing in full-length he wears the elaborate robes and plumed hat of the Order of the Garter and rests his right hand on a covered table on which sits the royal ducal coronet. The portrait was probably painted between December 1666, when the Duke was nominated and invested as a Knight of the Garter and his death in June the following year.
Provenance
Possibly painted for Queen Henrietta Maria and recorded at Colombes in 1669; appears in the Queen's Old Gallery at Windsor Castle in 1688 (no 835); in the Queen's Dressing Room at St James's in 1710 (no 16); by 1818 it has moved to the King's Gallery at Kensington where it appears in Pyne's illustrated Royal Residences of 1819 (RCIN 922158); by 1841 it had taken its present position in a scheme of three overdoors with matching Palladian frames in the Green Drawing Room at Buckingham Palace
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Medium and techniques
Oil on canvas
Measurements
150.3 x 104.7 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external)
243.0 x 211.8 x 20.0 cm (frame, external)
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