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Philip IV (Spanish: Felipe Domingo Victor de la Cruz de Austria y Austria, Portuguese: Filipe; 8 April 1605 – 17 September 1665), also called the Planet King (Spanish: Rey Planeta), was King of Spain from 1621 to his death and (as Philip III) King of Portugal from 1621 to 1640.
- 31 March 1621 – 17 September 1665
- Margaret of Austria
Velázquez painted many portraits of Philip throughout the latter’s reign, and this is the last painted image of the King by the man who served him as court artist from 1623. This work makes an interesting contrast with an earlier, full-length portrait, Philip IV of Spain in Brown and Silver.
Title: Philip IV (1605–1665), King of Spain. Artist: Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez) (Spanish, Seville 1599–1660 Madrid) Date: probably 1624. Medium: Oil on canvas. Dimensions: 78 3/4 x 40 1/2 in. (200 x 102.9 cm) Classification: Paintings. Credit Line: Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913. Accession Number: 14.40.639.
Philip IV, 1624 by Diego Velázquez. Velázquez was paid for this noble portrait of King Philip IV of Spain on December 4, 1624. Velázquez had arrived in Madrid in the summer of 1623 and was made painter to the king that August. The picture was commissioned by an important person at court, Don Garcáa Párez de Araciel, and is an autograph ...
The Portrait of Philip IV or Philip IV in Brown and Silver (and occasionally referred to as Philip IV of Spain in Brown and Silver) is a portrait of Philip IV of Spain painted by Diego Velázquez. It is sometimes known as Silver Philip and is now in the National Gallery in London.
- 199 cm × 113 cm (78 in × 44 in)
- Diego Velázquez
- 1635
Velázquez, Diego Rodríguez de Silva y. Sevilla (Spain), 1599 - Madrid (Spain), 1660. Philip IV. 1623. Oil on canvas. We see King Philip IV of Spain (r. 1621-1665) when he was around twenty years old in an austere image filled with references to his status and responsibilities and to the reformist intentions with which he began his reign.
The Gardner portrait of Philip IV of Spain is a version of the famous portrait in the Prado, Madrid, and is one in a series Velázquez painted of the King after the artist's appointment to the court in 1623.
