Sunday, January 6, 2019

Paintings Collected by George I and George II

workshop of Godfrey Kneller
Portrait of George I (for coinage)
ca. 1715
oil on canvas
(commissioned by George I)
Royal Collection, Great Britain

Peter Paul Rubens
Equestrian Portrait of Don Rodrigo Calderon
ca. 1612-15
oil on canvas
(purchased by George I in 1723,
with the subject erroneously identified as the Duke of Alba)
Royal Collection, Great Britain

Peter Paul Rubens
Holy Family with St Francis
ca. 1620-30
oil on canvas
(purchased by George I in 1723)
Royal Collection, Great Britain

Godfrey Kneller
 George II when Prince of Wales
1716
oil on canvas
(probably commissioned by the subject)
Royal Collection, Great Britain

Hans Holbein
Portrait of Sir Henry Guildford
1527
oil on panel
(purchased ca. 1734 by George II
from descendants of Thomas Howard, 14th Earl of Arundel)
Royal Collection, Great Britain

Giorgio Vasari after Pontormo (painting) after Michelangelo (drawing)
Venus and Cupid
ca. 1543
oil on panel
(acquired by Queen Caroline on behalf of George II)
Royal Collection, Great Britain

Livinus de Vogelaare
The Memorial of Lord Darnley
1567
oil on canvas
(presented to Queen Caroline and George II)
Royal Collection, Great Britain

Anonymous painter working in England
Queen Elizabeth I
ca. 1580-1603
oil on panel
(acquired by George II)
Royal Collection, Great Britain

Bartholomeus van Bassen
The King and Queen of Bohemia dining in public
ca. 1634
oil on panel
(acquired by George II from the Countess of Pomfret in 1729)
Royal Collection, Great Britain

William Kent
The Meeting between Henry V and the Queen of France
ca. 1728-30
oil on canvas
(commissioned by Queen Caroline, consort of George II)
Royal Collection, Great Britain

William Kent
Marriage of Henry V
1729
oil on canvas
(commissioned by Queen Caroline, consort of George II)
Royal Collection, Great Britain

Johann Christof Merk
Prussian Riesengrenadier
ca. 1730
oil on canvas
(probably acquired by George II)
Royal Collection, Great Britain

attributed to David Morier
The Battle of Dettingen, 1743
 ca. 1743-45
oil on canvas
(acquired by George II)
Royal Collection, Great Britain

Martin Maingaud
Portrait of Princesses Anne, Amelia, and Caroline
1721
oil on canvas
(commissioned by George II)
Royal Collection, Great Britain