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| John de Critz the Elder Anne of Denmark, consort of King James I (wearing ropes of Queen Elizabeth's pearls, who had died only two years previously) ca. 1605 oil on panel National Maritime Museum, London |
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| John de Critz the Elder King James I 1609 oil on panel Government Art Collection, London |
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| Robert Peake the Elder Princess Elizabeth, aged 7 (daughter of King James I, later Elizabeth of Bohemia, the Winter Queen) 1603 oil on canvas National Maritime Museum, London |
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| Gerrit van Honthorst Elizabeth of Bohemia, the Winter Queen ca. 1631 oil on canvas Government Art Collection, London |
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| attributed to Robert Peake the Elder Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales (heir of King James I, but died suddenly at age 18 in 1612) ca. 1610-12 oil on panel Magdalen College, University of Oxford |
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| Peter Paul Rubens Marchesa Maria Grimaldi and her favorite Dwarf ca. 1607 oil on canvas National Trust, Kingston Lacy, Dorset |
"From the earliest historic times dwarfs attracted attention, and there was much competition on the part of kings and the wealthy to obtain the little folk as attendants. . . . The Romans practised artificial dwarfing, and the Latin nanus or pumilo were terms alternatively used to describe the natural and unnatural dwarf. . . . Various recipes for dwarfing children have been from time to time in vogue. The most effective, according to report, was to anoint the backbone with the grease of moles, bats and dormice. The stunting of the growth of stable-boys who aspire to jockey's honours is in no sense true dwarfing. . . . In later days there have been many dwarf-favourites at European courts."
– Encyclopædia Britannica (1911)
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| Diego Velázquez Don Baltasar Carlos in Silver (heir to the throne of Spain, but died of smallpox at age 16) 1633 oil on canvas Wallace Collection, London |
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| John Russell Henrietta Maria, consort of King Charles I (combining Queen Elizabeth's inherited pearls with what appear to be sapphires) ca. 1630 oil on panel Dover Collections, Kent |
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| Anthony van Dyck Henry Percy, 9th Earl of Northumberland ca. 1635 oil on canvas National Trust, Petworth House, Sussex |
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| Anthony van Dyck The Honourable Anne Boteler, Countess of Newport, later Countess of Portland ca. 1637-38 oil on canvas National Trust, Petworth House, Sussex |
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| Ferdinand Bol Portrait of a Gentleman as Aeneas at the Hunt ca. 1644 oil on canvas Kenwood House, London |
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| Cornelius Johnson Mary, Princess Royal, daughter of Charles I, later Princess of Orange 1639 oil on panel National Portrait Gallery, London |
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| William Dobson Portrait of a Royalist ca. 1643 oil on canvas National Maritime Museum, London |
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| Ferdinand Bol Portrait of a Lady ca. 1644 oil on canvas Kenwood House, London |