The Last Moments of the Princess Elizabeth, daughter of Charles I.

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Thomas Price Downes (fl. 1835-1887)
The Last Moments of the Princess Elizabeth, daughter of Charles I.
signed 'T.P. Downes' (on the edge of the table)and signed and inscribed 'Last Moments of the Princess Elisabeth, daughter of Charles the First expired alone, sitting in her apartment at Carisbrooke Castle, her fair cheek resting on a Bible, which was the last gift of her murdered father, and which had been her only consolation in the last sad moments of her life./.../Vol. VII page 194/Painted by Thos. P. Downes' (on an old label on the reverse)
oil on canvas, unframed
20 x 24 in. (50.8 x 61 cm.)

Provenance

The artist; Christie's, 30 April 1864, lot 517 (unsold at 50 gns.).

Exhibited

London, Royal Academy, 1863, no. 531.

Lot Essay

Princess Elizabeth (1635-1650) was the second daughter of Charles I and Henrietta Maria. Her brief and unhappy life reached its melancholy climax when she took leave of her father on 29 January 1649, the day before his execution, an event from which she never recovered. In the summer of 1650 she was sent to Carisbrooke Castle on the Isle of Wight, where her father had been imprisoned, and she died there of a chill on 8 September.

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