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Detail from Vermeer's Music Lesson
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CHARLES WILD (1781-1835)

Carlton House: The Blue Velvet Room

RCIN 922184

This room displayed the individual masterpieces of George IV's Dutch collection: Rembrandt's Shipbuilder and his Wife; Albert Cuyp's Passage Boat and Jan Both's St Philip Baptising the Eunuch. These three paintings were extraordinarily expensive and cost George IV a combined total of 7,700 guineas. RCIN 922184

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