Sunday, January 20, 2019

Painted Portraits Collected by George V and Queen Mary

Peter Lely and Benedetto Gennari
Portrait of James II when Duke of York with Anne Hyde, Princess Mary and Princess Anne
ca. 1668-85
oil on canvas
(purchased by Queen Mary)
Royal Collection, Great Britain

John Vanderbank
Equestrian Portrait of George I
1726
oil on canvas
(presented to George V)
Royal Collection, Great Britain

Benjamin West
August, Duke of Sussex
1780
oil on canvas
(purchased by Queen Mary)
Royal Collection, Great Britain

George Sanders
George Gordon, 6th Lord Byron, in the Hebrides
1807-1809
oil on canvas
(bequeathed to George V)
Royal Collection, Great Britain

George Dawe
Alexandra Feodorovna, Empress of Russia, with two of her children
ca. 1821
oil on canvas
(purchased by Queen Mary)
Royal Collection, Great Britain

Thomas Sully
Queen Victoria
1837-39
oil on canvas
(gift of Queen Mary to George V)
Royal Collection, Great Britain

Franz Xaver Winterhalter
Queen Victoria with the Prince of Wales
1846
oil on canvas
(purchased by Queen Mary)
Royal Collection, Great Britain

Edwin Landseer
Princess Mary of Cambridge with Nelson, a Newfoundland Dog
ca. 1839
oil on canvas
(presented to George V)
Royal Collection, Great Britain

John Pettie
Bonnie Prince Charlie entering the Ballroom at Holyroodhouse
ca. 1892
oil on canvas
(presented to George V)
Royal Collection, Great Britain

Édouard Detaille
Self-portrait
1908
oil on canvas
(purchased by George V)
Royal Collection, Great Britain

George Percy Jacomb-Hood
George V and Queen Mary
leaving St George's Chapel after Garter Service
1913
oil on panel (based on a press photograph)
(purchased by Queen Mary)
Royal Collection, Great Britain

John Lavery
King George V
1913
oil on canvas
(presented by the artist to George V)
Royal Collection, Great Britain

John St Helier Lander
Edward VIII when Prince of Wales
ca. 1923
oil on canvas
(commissioned by George V)
Royal Collection, Great Britain

Frank O. Salisbury
The Installation of the Knights of the Order of the Bath - The King's Offering
1928
oil on canvas
(presented to George V)
Royal Collection, Great Britain

Simon Elwes
Queen Mary
1938-39
oil on canvas
(commissioned by Queen Mary)
Royal Collection, Great Britain