caption
after Anthony van Dyck, Charles I
Photo courtesy of Dave Penman (All rights reserved)
Details
- Country House
- Doddington Hall
- Title(s)
- Charles I
- Date
- after 1635–6
- Location
- Brown Parlour
- Medium and support
- Oil on panel
- Dimensions
- Overall height: 60 cm, Overall width: 53 cm
- Artist
- after Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641)
- Catalogue Number
- DN12
Bibliography
R.E.G. Cole, History of Doddington, otherwise Doddington-Pigot, in the County of Lincoln, and its successive owners, with pedigrees, Lincoln : James Williamson, 1897, p. 224
Susan J. Barnes, Nora de Poorter, Oliver Millar and Horst Vey, Van Dyck: A Complete Catalogue of the Paintings, New Haven and London, 2004, p. 466, no. IV.49
Description
The portrait is a reduced-scale copy of a portrait of Charles I (1600–1649) painted in 1635–6. Among the best versions of the portrait is the one in the collection of the Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle, Sussex. The composition was very popular, and numerous versions and copies exist, such as in: the National Portrait Gallery, London; Wilton House; Welbeck Abbey; and Sudeley Castle. The present copy would appear to be later, and was possibly made in the eighteenth century. In the late nineteenth century, when noted by Cole, it hung in the Long Gallery.