Tuesday, January 15, 2019

18th-century Paintings Collected by George IV (1762-1830)

Adriaen van der Werff
Boy and Girl with Guinea-Pig and Kitten
ca. 1700
oil on canvas
(purchased by George IV from Sir Thomas Baring in 1814)
Royal Collection, Great Britain

attributed to Jean-Baptiste Martin
Stag Hunt at Versailles
ca. 1700
oil on canvas
(purchased in Paris by George IV)
Royal Collection, Great Britain

Alexander van Gaelen
Queen Anne's Procession to the Houses of Parliament
ca. 1702-1720
oil on canvas
(purchased by George IV in 1827)
Royal Collection, Great Britain

Peter Tillemans
Queen Anne in the House of Lords
ca. 1708-1714
oil on canvas
(purchased by George IV)
Royal Collection, Great Britain

Petrus Janssens
Dead Game in a Landscape
ca. 1750
oil on panel
(acquired by George IV)
Royal Collection, Great Britain

John Taylor
Landscape with Ruins
1776
oil on panel
(acquired by George IV in 1822)
Royal Collection, Great Britain

Thomas Gainsborough
Diana and Actaeon
ca. 1785-88
oil on canvas
(purchased by George IV in 1797)
Royal Collection, Great Britain

George Place
Saadat Ali Khan, Nawab of Oudh
ca. 1798-1800
oil on canvas
(given to George IV by Peregrine Treves)
Royal Collection, Great Britain

George Stubbs
Laetitia, Lady Lade
1793
oil on canvas
(commissioned by George IV)
Royal Collection, Great Britain

George Stubbs
John Gascoigne with a Bay Horse
1791
oil on canvas
(commissioned by George IV)
Royal Collection, Great Britain

George Stubbs
Prince of Wales's Phaeton
1793
oil on canvas
(commissioned by George IV)
Royal Collection, Great Britain

George Stubbs
(landscape added by Claude-Joseph Vernet, background figures added by François Boucher)
Hollyhock
ca. 1767-70
oil on canvas
(purchased by George IV on the London art market in 1810)
Royal Collection, Great Britain

George Stubbs
A Grey Horse
1793
oil on canvas
(commissioned by George IV)
Royal Collection, Great Britain

George Stubbs
A Grey Horse
1793
oil on canvas
(commissioned by George IV)
Royal Collection, Great Britain