Saturday, January 12, 2019

Painted Portraits Collected by George IV (1762-1830) I

Philippe de Champaigne
Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal Richelieu
ca. 1625-42
oil on canvas
(presented to George IV when Prince Regent by Lord Fife in 1819)
Royal Collection, Great Britain

Rembrandt
The Shipbuilder and his Wife - Jan Rijcksen and Griet Jans
1633
oil on canvas
(purchased by George IV in 1811)
Royal Collection, Great Britain

attributed to Ferdinand Bol
Bearded Old Man in a Fur Cloak
ca. 1648-50
oil on canvas
(purchased by George IV from Sir Thomas Baring in 1814)
Royal Collection, Great Britain

Gonzales Coques
Family of Jan-Baptista Anthoine
1664
oil on copper
(purchased by George IV from Lord Radstock's collection in 1826)
Royal Collection, Great Britain

attributed to Constantijn Netscher
Girl with a Guinea Pig
1677
oil on canvas
(acquired by George IV in the erroneous belief that a royal ancestress was depicted)
Royal Collection, Great Britain

Jacopo Amigoni
Frederick, Prince of Wales
1735
oil on canvas
(acquired by George IV)
Royal Collection, Great Britain

Joshua Reynolds
Charles Fitzroy, later 1st Baron Southampton
ca. 1760
oil on canvas
(purchased by George IV from the dealer Colnaghi in 1818)
Royal Collection, Great Britain

Thomas Gainsborough
The three eldest Princesses - Charlotte, Augusta and Elizabeth
1783-84
oil on canvas
(commissioned by their brother, later George IV)
Royal Collection, Great Britain

Richard Cosway
Elizabeth Milbanke, Viscountess Melbourne in Jacobean fancy dress
(mistress of the Prince Regent and mother of Lord Melbourne, the Prime Minister)
ca. 1784
oil on canvas
(probably commissioned by George IV)
Royal Collection, Great Britain

George Stubbs
George IV when Prince of Wales
1791
oil on canvas
(commissioned by George IV when Prince of Wales)
Royal Collection, Great Britain

John Hoppner
Francis Russell, 5th Duke of Bedford
1796-97
oil on canvas
(commissioned by George IV)
Royal Collection, Great Britain

William Etty
Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire with her daughter Georgiana, later Countess of Carlisle
1807-1808
oil on canvas
(commissioned by George IV)
Royal Collection, Great Britain

Jacques-Laurent Agasse
Francis Augustus Eliott, 2nd Baron Heathfield
1812-14
oil on canvas
(acquired by George IV)
Royal Collection, Great Britain

Thomas Lawrence
Maria II da Gloria, Queen of Portugal
1829
oil on canvas
(commissioned by George IV)
Royal Collection, Great Britain