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Background. Earlier 1635 painting with both Prince Charles and Prince James wearing skirts. In 1635 Van Dyck had painted a portrait of the same three children, which was intended to be sent to the Queen's sister Christina, in exchange for portraits of the Duchess's children.
The present bust portrait depicts King Philp IV (1605-1665) in the mid 1620s, when he was just over twenty years old. It emphasizes his military responsibilities by presenting him in armor, with the crimson general´s sash across his chest.
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Velázquez arrived in Madrid in 1623 and was soon named court painter to Philip IV. Formal portraits served as official images that circulated throughout Europe and the Americas; here, a somber simplicity befitting the pious monarch departs from the opulence of earlier Spanish court portraiture.
Mar 1, 2018 · Van Dyck was Charles I’s right-hand artist from 1632 on, painting hundreds of portraits of the king; his wife, Queen Henrietta Maria; and their growing brood. Charles had already demonstrated a particular taste for Northern European portraiture, owning several by such artists as Albrecht Dürer and Holbein, so his appointment of Van Dyck as ...
Charles II´s armour -decorated with the alternating motifs of the X-shaped Cross of Burgundy and a radiant sun- was symbolically loaded, for it was originally created for his ancestor Philip II and worn during the Battle of Saint-Quentin in 1557, in which Spain was victorious against the French.
Van Dyck represents the six-year-old princess with poise beyond her years, dressed not as a child but a woman prepared to fulfill her role on the European stage. After failed attempts to betroth her to a son of Philip IV of Spain and her first cousin Charles I Louis, Elector Palatine, Mary—aged nine—married Prince William II of Orange on ...
Charles I with M. de St. Antoine was the first equestrian portrait ever painted of this king, and Anthony van Dyck purposefully chose this format to enhance Charles’s status at a particularly unstable moment in British history.
