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    British Pictures 1500-1850

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    23 November 2004

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    • Follower of Sir Peter Lely
    Lot 10

    Follower of Sir Peter Lely

    Portrait of King James II, when Duke of York, full-length, in robes of state

    Price realised

    GBP 16,730

    Estimate

    GBP 5,000 - GBP 8,000

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    Follower of Sir Peter Lely
    Portrait of King James II, when Duke of York, full-length, in robes of state
    with identifying inscription (upper left)
    oil on canvas
    91 x 52 3/8 in. (231.1 x 133 cm.)

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    Lot Essay

    The sitter was the son of King Charles I and Queen Henrietta Maria. He first married Anne Hyde (1660), and secondly Mary of Modena (1673). On the death of his brother Charles II in 1685, James II come to the throne. His coronation took place on 23 April, 1685 at Westminster Abbey. He abdicated in December 1688 and died in exile in France in 1701.
    The present picture was a popular design of which the prime version appears to be that at Windsor (see O. Millar, The Tudor, Stuart and early Georgian Pictures in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen, London, 1963, p. 121, no. 241).

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