A pencil drawing of Prince Charles Edward Stuart, in profile to the right. Within an oval, on a later wash-line bordered mount.

This drawing is one of many portraits by Giles Hussey of the Jacobite Prince Charles Edward Stuart, known in his lifetime as the 'Young Pretender' or Bonnie Prince Charlie. Hussey was a history and portrait painter who trained in France and Italy. In the 1730s he moved in Jacobite circles in Rome, making several drawings of the exiled James Stuart, the 'Old Pretender', and his son, Charles Edward Stuart. Hussey returned to England after the death of his father in 1736, but struggled to make a living from his work. He made portrait drawings in red and black chalk, and many copies of the drawings he had made of the Jacobite heirs while in Rome. Hussey worked on lengthy artistic theories of proportion and of the relationship between art and music, but failed to bring them to widespread attention. This drawing is unfinished, with the details of the waistcoat uncompleted, and is probably one of the many copies Hussey made in the 1740s. Two other framed portraits of the prince by Hussey are RCINs 917195 and 917745.