Category:Queen Charlotte with her Two Eldest Sons (Allan Ramsay - Buckingham Palace)

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Queen Charlotte with her Two Eldest Sons (Allan Ramsay - Buckingham Palace)
Allan Ramsay: Queen Charlotte (1744-1818) with her two Eldest Sons  wikidata:Q28016076 reasonator:Q28016076
Artist
Allan Ramsay  (1713–1784)  wikidata:Q560792
 
Allan Ramsay
Description British painter, architectural draftsperson and visual artist
Date of birth/death 13 October 1713 / 1713 / 2 October 1713 Edit this at Wikidata 10 August 1784 / 1784 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Edinburgh Dover
Work period 1729 Edit this at Wikidata–1773 Edit this at Wikidata
Work location
London, Rome, Edinburgh
Authority file
creator QS:P170,Q560792
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Title
Queen Charlotte (1744-1818), with her Two Eldest Sons Edit this at Wikidata
title QS:P1476,en:"Queen Charlotte (1744-1818), with her Two Eldest Sons Edit this at Wikidata"
label QS:Len,"Queen Charlotte (1744-1818), with her Two Eldest Sons Edit this at Wikidata"
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Genre portrait Edit this at Wikidata
Description

Caption from the museum's website / Gallery label: This is the closest any British artist gets to the elegance, subtlety and precision of French portraiture and the best candidate to represent portrait painting in the Age of Enlightenment. The sitter is shown seated at an English spinnet (which may be compared with one at the Royal College of Museum of c. 1750 made by John Hitchcock); on the instrument is a work-box and a copy of John Locke’s 'Some Thoughts Concerning Education' (1693); leaning against it is a port-folio of drawings. The Queen holds Prince Frederick, later Duke of York (1763-1827); at her knee stands Prince George, Prince of Wales (later George IV, 1762-1830), with a bow and behind him a drum. Both boys are wearing dresses as they are too young to have yet been breeched.

Interestingly, the three sitters are painted on three separate pieces of canvas which have been joined together. It is possible that this was because the young Prince George grew and changed so quickly during the course of the commission that Ramsay was forced to alter the composition towards the end.
Depicted people Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz Edit this at Wikidata
Date between 1764 and 1769
date QS:P,+1764-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1764-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1769-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
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Medium oil on canvas Edit this at Wikidata
Dimensions height: 247.8 cm (97.5 in) Edit this at Wikidata; width: 165 cm (64.9 in) Edit this at Wikidata
dimensions QS:P2048,+247.8U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,+165.0U174728
institution QS:P195,Q1459037
Current location
Buckingham Palace   wikidata:Q42182
Buckingham Palace
Native name Buckingham Palace
Parent institution Royal Collection of the United Kingdom
Location
London
Coordinates 51° 30′ 04″ N, 0° 08′ 31″ W Link to OpenStreetMap Link to Google Maps Edit this at Wikidata
Established between 1705 and 1913
date QS:P,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/6,P1319,+1705-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1913-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
: built
1993: opened to public
Website www.royal.gov.uk
Authority file
institution QS:P195,Q42182
Green Drawing Room
Accession number
RCIN 404922 (Royal Collection) Edit this at Wikidata
Object history

Provenance:

  • Presumably commissioned by George III or Queen Charlotte;
  • first recorded as being moved to the Ball Room at Windsor Castle;
  • first recorded in 1795 when moved fom the King's Gallery at Kensington Palace to the Queen's Ball Room at Windsor Castle;
  • listed here in 1813 and 1816, it appears here in Pyne's illustrated Royal Residences of 1819 (RCIN 922101).
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Queen Charlotte (1744-1818) with her two Eldest Sons 
painting by Allan Ramsay
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DepictsCharlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz and boy
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LocationBuckingham Palace, City of Westminster, Greater London, London, England
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Inception
  • 1760s (before 1769, after 1764)
Width
  • 165 cm
Height
  • 247.8 cm
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Wikidata Q28016076
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