拍品專文
Although recorded in the 1983 Dobson exhibition catalogue, at the time of the exhibition the organisers downgraded the attribution. Very close to van Dyck in style (particularly the central head in the triple portrait of the King in the Royal Collection), the picture relates closely to a head and shoulders of the King by Dobson sold in these Rooms, 17 November 1989, lot 42. King Charles I is recorded as having sat to Dobson several times while in Oxford. Another autograph version of the type is in the Royal Collection (see O. Millar, The Tudor, Stuart and Early Georgian Pictures in the Royal Collection of Her Majesty the Queen, London, 1963, p. 113, no. 203).