File:Prince Rupert, 1619-82, 1st Duke of Cumberland and Count Palatine of the Rhine RMG BHC2989.tiff
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[edit]Peter Lely: Prince Rupert, 1619-82, 1st Duke of Cumberland and Count Palatine of the Rhine
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Prince Rupert, 1619-82, 1st Duke of Cumberland and Count Palatine of the Rhine  |
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| Object type | painting | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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portrait |
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| Description |
English: Prince Rupert, 1619-82, 1st Duke of Cumberland and Count Palatine of the Rhine A three-quarter-length portrait standing to left facing forwards. His left hand is on his hip, his head turned towards the viewer wearing a long dark brown wig. He wears a white lace-edged collar and the robes of a Knight of the Garter (dark blue lined with white) with the chain and George round his shoulders. His sword is visible hanging from his left side. A fluted column is behind. A son of Elizabeth, the 'Winter' Queen of Bohemia, and a nephew of King Charles I, he fought on land for his uncle throughout the Civil War (1642-49) principally as a cavalry commander, and became commander-in-chief of the Royalist land forces in 1644. At the end of the war he took command of the loyalist remnants of the fleet and despite defeat by Blake in 1650, carried on the conflict for several years. Under Charles II, he held commands in the regular navy, fighting in the Second and Third Dutch Wars and becoming Lord High Admiral on the Duke of York's enforced retirement in 1673. He was a man of some artistic talent and intellectual curiosity, and (like his cousin Charles II) a patron of science, often conducting experiments himself. Lely, a Dutchman who arrived in England in 1641 after the death of Van Dyck, soon became his successor as leading portraitist of the day. He worked for Charles I, continued to flourish under the Commonwealth and Protectorate, and after the Restoration of 1660 was appointed Principal Painter to Charles II. The portrait, inscribed 'Prince Rupert', was the one he gave to his secretary at the end of his life, Thomas Bennett. |
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| Date | circa 1665 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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oil on canvas |
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| Dimensions | Frame: 1440 mm x 1200 mm x 100 mm; Painting: 1230 x 990 mm | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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BHC2989 |
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| Source/Photographer | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/14462 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Permission (Reusing this file) |
The original artefact or artwork has been assessed as public domain by age, and faithful reproductions of the two dimensional work are also public domain. No permission is required for reuse for any purpose. The text of this image record has been derived from the Royal Museums Greenwich catalogue and image metadata. Individual data and facts such as date, author and title are not copyrightable, but reuse of longer descriptive text from the catalogue may not be considered fair use. Reuse of the text must be attributed to the "National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London" and a Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-SA-3.0 license may apply if not rewritten. Refer to Royal Museums Greenwich copyright. |
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| Identifier | Acquisition Number: OP1971-12 id number: BHC2989 |
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| Collection | Oil paintings | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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