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Title: Historical portraits; some notes on the painted portraits of celebrated characters of England, Scotland and Ireland
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Wheatley, Henry B. (Henry Benjamin), 1838-1917
Subjects: Portrait painters
Publisher: London, G. Bell
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
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o, and wastaken when James was a boy. There is anotherportrait of him at the age of fifty-five by VanSomer, in the National Portrait Gallery, and theMarquis of Lothian has one by J. Jameson. At Hampton Court there is a portrait of Jamessqueen, Anne of Denmark, dressed for the chase,by Van Somer. It was her habit to go out witha crossbow, and shoot at the deer, but her successwas not great, and on one occasion she killed thekings favourite dog. At this same palace there is an interestingpicture to which an anecdote is attached. It re-presents Henry, Prince of Wales, and RobertDevereux, 3rd Earl of Essex, as hunting, and itis related that one day when these two were playingtennis they fell out over the score. The princeso far lost his temper as to call Essex the son ofa traitor, upon which the earl took up his racketand hit the prince across the head. Mr. A. Stirling of Keir showed at the StuartExhibition a small picture containing portraits ofthe prince and his mother, Anne of Denmark.
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JAMES I. (aged 8 years), p>y f. zucharo. SOVEREIGNS AND THEIR COURTS 167 At Longleat is a portrait of the prince attributed,probably incorrectly, to Zucharo. When PrinceHenry died, Richard, Earl of Dorset, exclaimed : Our rising sun is set; it had scarcely shone, andwith him all our glory lies buried. Another child of James I. was even more popularthan the Prince of Wales. Elizabeth, Queen ofBohemia, popularly known as k the Queen ofHearts, was extolled in these lines by Sir HarryWotton, Provost of Eton : You meaner beauties of the night,That poorly satisfy our eyes, More by your number than your light;You common people of the skies,What are you when the moon shall rise ? The portrait of her by Honthorst at HamptonCourt is good. At this palace there is a smallpicture, by Van Bassen, representing her and herhusband dining in public. There are two portraits of this queen at theNational Portrait Gallery—one by Miereveldt andthe other by Honthorst. Viscount Powerscourtshowed a portra

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