English School, circa 1670
English School, circa 1670

Portrait of a boy, traditionally identified as James, Duke of Monmouth (1649-1685), full-length, in a brown coat with silver buttons, with a lace jabot, his right hand resting on a book open to page 103, on a green draped table

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English School, circa 1670
Portrait of a boy, traditionally identified as James, Duke of Monmouth (1649-1685), full-length, in a brown coat with silver buttons, with a lace jabot, his right hand resting on a book open to page 103, on a green draped table
oil on canvas
50 x 40 in. (127 x 101.6 cm.)
in a mid-18th century carved and gilded 'swept' frame
Provenance
Acquired from Leggatt Brothers, London, in 1913, by Weetman, 1st Viscount Cowdray.
Literature
Cowdray Park Catalogue, London, 1919, p. 7, no. 29, as 'Jacob Huysmans' 'James, Duke of Monmouth' (Stairs).
C. Anson, A Catalogue of Pictures and Drawings in the Collection of The Viscount Cowdray, London, 1971, p. 25, no. 70, plate 27, as 'School of Huysmans' 'a Boy, said to be James, Duke of Monmouth' (in the Main Staircase).

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