About this artwork
Prince James Francis Edward Stuart was the son of the exiled King James II and VII. On the death of his father in 1701 he was proclaimed King by his Jacobite supporters but attempts at regaining the thrones of England and Scotland failed. After the unsuccessful invasion of 1715 James was forced to live in Avignon, which was then Papal territory, until the pope offered him refuge in Rome, where he lived until his death. This painting is a copy of a portrait by Martin van Meytens, made in Rome as one of a pair – the other being of James’s wife Maria Clementina. Painted after the birth of their second son Henry, they were mutual presents, each to be hung in the other’s private rooms. Several copies of these works were produced to be given as presents to Jacobite supporters.
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title:Prince James Francis Edward Stuart, 1688 - 1766. Son of James VII and II
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date created:1727 - 1728; after original of 1725
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materials:Oil on canvas
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measurements:76.40 x 63.50 cm; Framed: 90.90 x 78.50 x 6.00 cm
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credit line:Bequeathed by Miss B.S. Parr 1956
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accession number:PG 1836
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artwork photographed by:Antonia Reeve
E. Gill
E. Gill
This elusive artist, known only as E.Gill, was probably an Englishman living in Rome during the 1720s. In 1727 he was commissioned to produce two, and later sixteen more copies of official portraits of Prince James Francis Edward Stewart and his wife, Maria Clementina. The following year, however,...
