Miles Barton Art and Interiors has dated this piece to the 18th Century.
Engraved and published, London 1782
A dark good impression on paper laid on card.
Framed: 79 x 63.5 cm (31 x 25 in)
Paper size: 64 x 48 cm (25 ½ x 19 in)
The engraving is held in a 19th century black and gilt slip frame with original old glass.
Provenance: Carbet Castle, Dundee, Scotland
Lettered in Latin below the image "Carolo 1mo. MAGNÆ BRITANNIÆ REGI, &c. Jacobus Hamiltonius, Marchio ab Hamilton, Sacri Stabuli Comes, adstat. / E Tabula Antonii Vandiick Equitis, 8 pedes et 9 digitos alta, 6 pedes et 10 digitos lata, in Pinacotheca Regis Christianissimi conservata" followed with artist's details "Antonius Vandiick Eques pinxit. / Robertus Strange delint. atque sculpsit A.D. 1782"
A striking engraving after the famous painting of 1635 by Van Dyck, now in the Louvre, Paris.
Engraved in 1782 by the Scottish Jacobite artist Sir Robert Strange who spent many years in exile before his return to London in 1780 and his reconciliation with the Hanoverian monarchy of George III who knighted him in 1787.
Miles Barton Art and Interiors has dated this piece to the 18th Century.
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18th Century Portrait Engraving of King Charles I of Great Britain Circa 1782
