Style of Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641)
Equestian Portrait of Maximilian II Emmanuel, Elector of Bavaria (1662-1726) c.1700
Oil on canvas | 119.4 x 84.1 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external) | RCIN 404506
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This is an unknown artist doing a pastiche of Van Dyck’s ‘Charles I with St Antoine’ (OM 143, 405322) some seventy years after the original. The sitter was governor of the Spanish Netherlands from 1691-1714, which is presumably when and where this was painted.
Provenance
Acquired by George IV on or before December 1806; recorded in the store at Carlton House in 1816 (no 358) and 1819 (no 439) as a portrait of Louis XIV, valued at 40 guineas; taken to Windsor Castle in 1823
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Medium and techniques
Oil on canvas
Measurements
119.4 x 84.1 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external)
150.4 x 115.1 x 9.0 cm (frame, external)
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Portrait of a man on horseback
Maximilian II Emmanuel (1662-1726), Elector of Bavaria and Governor of the Spanish Netherlands?
James II (1633-1701), previously identified as
Louis XIV (1643-1715), previously identified as
Prince Eugène (17th C), previously identified as
