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ANTIQUE #SA1064471

Oil On Canvas Portrait Of King Charles I, Half Length Wearing Armour And The Badge Of The Order Of The Garter - After Sir Anthony Van Dyke

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17th century portrait of King Charles I, half-length, wearing armour and the badge of the Order of the Garter - After Sir Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641)
 
This iconic image is a reduced version of Van Dyck''s iconic three-quarter length portrait of King Charles I, datable to circa 1632-33, in the collection of The Duke of Norfolk at Arundel Castle, Sussex.
 
As with many portraits of the monarch, versions were painted to both satisfy the demand for the King’s picture in support of him during English civil war (1642 51), and also to commemorate the King after his death. This is a particularly fine, sensitively rendered and arresting version which is in an excellent state of conservation and housed in its likely original 17th century ‘Lely’ style frame.
 
King Charles I (1600 – 1649)
 
Charles was King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 27 March 1625 until his execution in 1649. He was born into the House of Stuart as the second son of King James VI of Scotland, but after his father inherited the English throne in 1603, he moved to England, where he spent much of the rest of his life. He became heir apparent to the kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland in 1612 upon the death of his elder brother, Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales.
 
An unsuccessful and unpopular attempt to marry him to the Spanish Habsburg princess Maria Anna culminated in an eight-month visit to Spain in 1623 that demonstrated the futility of the marriage negotiation. Two years later, he married the Bourbon princess Henrietta Maria of France.
 
After his 1625 succession, Charles quarrelled with the English Parliament, which sought to curb his royal prerogative. He believed in the divine right of kings, and was determined to govern according to his own conscience. Many of his subjects opposed his policies, in particular the levying of taxes without parliamentary consent, and perceived his actions as those of a tyrann...
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