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Serenissimo, Potentissimo, & Excekkentissimo Principi, Carolo DEI gratia Magnae Britanniae, Franciae, et Hiberniae Regi Fidei Defensori etc. c.1628
Engraving | 41.0 x 37.0 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 601534
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Engraving of Charles I as king. Bust length with long hair, closed ruff, embroidered doublet, and order on ribbon around neck. Within an oval border bearing Latin inscription, within a rectangular frame with Latin inscription below. Borders trimmed. Very fine. For the corresponding portrait of Henrietta Maria, see RCIN 602031.
Charles I and his consort, Henietta Maria (see RCIN 602031) were married in 1625, five weeks after Charles was proclaimed King following the death of his father, James I. Charles I commissioned the Dutch artist Daniel Mytens to paint himself and his new wife, and subsequently sent the portraits to Holland to be engraved by Willem Jacobsz Delff, who was paid '£5 for perusing two pictures of ye King and Queene in black and white to be cut in brasse.'
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ExhibitionMasters of the Everyday: Dutch Artists in the Age of Vermeer: The Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace
Presenting 28 masterpieces from the Royal Collection, the exhibition includes works by Gerrit Dou, Gabriel Metsu, Jan Steen and Pieter de Hooch, and Johannes Vermeer's 'A Lady at the Virginal with a Gentleman'.
