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Sir Peter Lely (1618-80)
James II when Duke of York (1633-1701) c. 1663-65
Oil on canvas | 127.0 x 102.1 x 2.4 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external) | RCIN 407810
Sir Peter Lely (1618-80)
James II when Duke of York (1633-1701) c. 1663-65
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Three-quarter-length portrait of James II (1633-1701) when Duke of York, wearing armour, with a baton in his right hand and resting his left hand on his helmet. The face and possibly the left hand are by Lely, but the composition was presumably completed towards the end of the seventeenth century by another artist.
Provenance
First recorded amongst James II's pictures in a wardrobe at St James's Palace as unfinished (no 1185); in the Queen's Green Closet at St James's in 1710 (no 26); in the King's Pictured Staircase at Kensington Palace in 1732; in the King's Gallery at Kensington in 1790; taken from there in 1795 to Windsor Castle, to hang in the King's Closet, where it appears in Pyne's illustrated Royal Residences of 1819 (RCIN 922104).
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Medium and techniques
Oil on canvas
Measurements
127.0 x 102.1 x 2.4 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external)
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