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- Museum number
- Y,1.107
- Title
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Object: Magnates et heroes Regali Scotiae et Angliae Prognati ...
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Series: Historical Portraitures
- Description
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The cenotaph of Henry, Lord Darnley, with Matthew Earl of Lenox and his wife Margareta, Darnley's father and mother, kneeling side by side on the right, their son Charles behind them and their grandson, James I in front of them, wearing the crown and coronation robes ith the sceptre on a cushion in front of him, all praying before a cross on the altar to left, held by the risen Christ; with a depiction of the battle of Carberry Hill in a frame in the lower right, a plaque describing the murder of Darnley hanging on the wall to left and another plaque, hanging from a ring in the wall to right, describing the commission of the painting. 1743
Etching and engraving
- Production date
- 1743
- Dimensions
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Height: 443 millimetres
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Width: 574 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- One of nine plates Vertue engraved of 'Historical Portraitures' (see Alexander nos.854-857, 921-924 and 954), from copies he made after paintings relating to the Tudor family, issued in three parts: the first four were published in 1743 and advertised in his 1751 catalogue at £1.11s.6d; the second four were published in 1748 and advertised in his 1753 catalogue at £1.1s; the last print was published in 1750 and advertised in his 1753 catalogue at £7.7s. They were all republished as a set by the Society of Antiquaries in 1776, together with Vertue's notes on the pictures which he presented to the Society and plate numbers.
Vertue describes two originals from which he made his copy: the first had belonged to the Earl of Pomfret and was in Kensington Palace, it was copied for the Earl of Oxford by James Anderson, who made a detailed description of it in 1727; the second belonged to the Duke of Richmond, Lennox and Aubigné, who found it in his castle in Aubigné. Vertue adds that part of the inscription which spoke of the Queen's consent to Darnley's murder, had been scratched out in the Pomfret version and supplied from the other. The inscription on the wall to right states that the the picture was commissioned by the Earl and Countess of Lennox in 1567. The view of the battle of Carberry Hill is the subject of another of the plates, the notes to which contain further details of the provenance of the two paintings (Mm,15.162).
According to Alexander, the painting is by Livinus de Vogelaare, now at Goodwood; the other version was given to Queen Caroline in around 1736 and was initially at Kensington Palace.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1837 (before)
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- Y,1.107
- Additional IDs
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Other BM number: 2006,U.782
