ISBN 978 1 902163 63 5

The Royal Collection contains a large group of paintings, 147 in all, by Flemish artists who were active principally in the seventeenth century. The introduction to the catalogue gives a detailed history of the growth of the collection from the time of Charles I, noted for his close relations with Rubens, down to the reign of Queen Victoria. During the Hanoverian period, Frederick, Prince of Wales, George III and, above all, George IV, made a range of outstanding acquisitions.

Every painting included in the catalogue was newly examined for construction and condition, new photographs were taken and infra-red and X-ray images are provided in many of the catalogue entries.

Sir Christopher White was Assistant Keeper in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum; in 1965 he became a Director of P. and D. Colnaghi, specialising in old master drawings, leaving in 1971 to serve as Curator of Graphic Arts at the National Gallery of Art, Washington. In 1973 he was appointed Director of Studies at the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art and in 1985 he left to become Director of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, from which he retired in 1997.

 

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