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‘Two boys with a bladder’ in the J. Paul Getty Museum and Joseph Wright of Derby’s early candlelights
03/2025 | 1464 | 167
Pages: 242–57
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Siemon, Julia (Siemon, Julia)
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1. Two boys with a bladder, by Joseph Wright of Derby. 1767. Oil on canvas, 92.7 by 73 cm. (J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles).
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10. Self-portrait, by Joseph Wright of Derby. c.1765–68. Oil on canvas, 70.2 by 58.7 cm. (National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne).
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11. Portrait of a man, known as the ‘Indian Captain’, by Joseph Wright of Derby. 1767. Oil on canvas, 229.2 by 138.4 cm. (Yale Center for British Art, New Haven).
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12. Self-portrait in a fur cap, by Joseph Wright of Derby. c.1765–68. Grisaille on blue-grey laid paper, 42.5 by 29.5 cm. (Art Institute of Chicago; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
13. Portrait of a gentleman in a red fur-trimmed coat, frogged waistcoat and a white turban, by Joseph Wright of Derby. Late 1760s. Oil on canvas, 63.5 by 53.5 cm. (Private collection).
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14. Girl reading with a man looking over her shoulder, by Joseph Wright of Derby. 1768. Oil on canvas, 91.4 by 71.1 cm. (Private collection; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
15. Two boys fighting over a bladder, by Joseph Wright of Derby. 1768. Oil on canvas, 91.4 by 71.1 cm. (Private collection).
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16. Study of a girl in a turban with pompom and frilled collar, by Joseph Wright of Derby. c.1767. Black and white chalk and stump on grey paper, 43.8 by 29.2 cm. (Private collection; photograph Lucas Olivet).
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17. Study of a boy reading, by Joseph Wright of Derby. c.1766. Grisaille pastel with touches of black chalk on blue paper, 48 by 28 cm. (J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles).
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18. An experiment on a bird in the air pump, by Joseph Wright of Derby. 1768. Oil on canvas, 76.2 by 63.5 (Derby Museum and Art Gallery).
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2. Three persons viewing the Gladiator by candle-light, by Joseph Wright of Derby. 1765. Oil on canvas, 102.5 by 122 cm. (Walker Art Gallery, National Museums Liverpool; Bridgeman Images).
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3. A philosopher giving that lecture on the orrery, in which a lamp is put in place of the sun, by Joseph Wright of Derby. 1766. Oil on canvas, 147.3 by 203.2 cm. (Derby Museum and Art Gallery; Bridgeman Images).
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4. An experiment on a bird in the air pump, by Joseph Wright of Derby. 1768. Oil on canvas, 183 by 244 cm. (National Gallery, London).
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5. An academy by lamplight, by Joseph Wright of Derby. Late 1760s. Oil on canvas, 127 by 101.6 cm. (Private collection).
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6. An academy by lamplight, by Joseph Wright of Derby. 1769. Oil on canvas, 127 by 101 cm. (Yale Center for British Art, New Haven; Bridgeman Images).
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7. Hermit, by Joseph Wright of Derby. 1769. Oil on canvas, 128.2 by 102.9 cm. (Derby Museum and Art Gallery; Bridgeman Images).
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8. Two girls dressing a kitten by candlelight, by Joseph Wright of Derby. 1767. Oil on canvas, 90.8 by 72.4 cm. (Kenwood House, London; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
9. Two boys by candlelight, blowing a bladder, by Joseph Wright of Derby and studio. c.1767–73. Oil on canvas, 91.4 by 72.1 cm. (Huntington Library and Art Museum, San Marino).
Book Review
William Kent’s Ceiling Paintings at Houghton Hall
08/2024 | 1457 | 166
Pages: 887
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Hamlett, Lydia (Hamlett, Lydia)
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William Kent’s Ceiling Paintings at Houghton Hall By John Laycock. 168 pp. incl. numerous col. + b. & w. ills. (Houghton Arts Foundation, King’s Lynn, 2021), £20. ISBN 978–1–5272–5506–7. | :
Article
Holbein in exhibitions in Frankfurt and London
02/2024 | 1451 | 166
Pages: 166–170
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Goldring, Elizabeth (Goldring, Elizabeth)
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Holbein and the Renaissance in the North, Städel Museum, Frankfurt,(2nd November 2023–18th February 2024) | :
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Holbein at the Tudor Court, Queen's Gallery, London, (10th November 2023–14th April 2024) | :
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1. Portrait of a man with the surname Fischer, by Hans Holbein the Elder. c.1512. Silverpoint on prepared paper, reworked with brush and ink, 13.5 by 9.5 cm. (Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett; exh. Städel Museum, Frankfurt).
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2. Portrait of a man with the surname Fischer, by Hans Holbein the Younger (?). 1512. Oil on panel, 35 by 26.5 cm. (Private collection; exh. Städel Museum, Frankfurt).
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3. The wife of a man with the surname Fischer, by Ambrosius Holbein (?). 1512. Oil on panel, 35 by 26.6 cm. (Kunstmuseum Basel; Bridgeman Images; exh. Städel Museum, Frankfurt).
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4. Thomas More, by Hans Holbein the Younger. c.1527. Black and coloured chalks, pricked for transfer to a wooden panel, 39.8 by 29.9 cm. (© His Majesty King Charles III, 2024; Royal Collection Trust; exh. Queen’s Gallery, London).
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5. Unidentified man, perhaps George Cornwall, by Hans Holbein the Younger. c.1535–40. Oil and tempera on panel, diameter 32.4 cm. (Städel Museum, Frankfurt).
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6. Anne Boleyn, by Hans Holbein the Younger. c.1532–36. Black and coloured chalks on pink prepared paper, 28.2 by 19.3 cm. (© His Majesty King Charles III, 2024; Royal Collection Trust; exh. Queen’s Gallery, London).
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7. Unidentified man, perhaps George Cornwall, by Hans Holbein the Younger. c.1543? Black and coloured chalks with black and brown inks on pink prepared paper, 27.9 by 19.1 cm. (© His Majesty King Charles III, 2024; Royal Collection Trust; exh. Queen’s Gallery, London).
Article
Early copies on panel after Anthony van Dyck: new findings
02/2024 | 1451 | 166
Pages: 140–144
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Davies, Justin (Davies, Justin)
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1. Charles I, Henrietta Maria, Charles, Prince of Wales and Princess Elizabeth, attributed to Remigius van Leemput, after Anthony van Dyck. After 1651. Oil on panel, 59.8 by 49.4 cm. (Woburn Abbey Collection, Bedfordshire).
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2. Gaspar Gevartius, after Anthony van Dyck. After 1648. Oil on panel, 26 by 20 cm. (Woburn Abbey Collection, Bedfordshire).
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3. Gaspar Gevartius, after Anthony van Dyck. After 1648. Oil on panel, 25.6 by 20 cm. (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam).
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4. Prince Frederick Henry of Orange, after Anthony van Dyck. After 1670. Oil on panel, 25.4 by 19.9 cm. (Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest).
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5. Jan van Ravesteyn, after Anthony van Dyck. After 1671. Oil on panel, 25.4 by 20 cm. (Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest) .
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6. Jan van Ravesteyn, by Anthony van Dyck. Oil on panel, 24.8 by 18.1 cm. (Collection of the Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry, Boughton House, Northamptonshire).
Article
Alfred Wallis and Christopher Wood: a meeting on canvas
09/2023 | 1446 | 165
Pages: 946–51
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Featherstone, Rupert (Featherstone, Rupert)
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1.Reverse of Fig.2, showing signature and inscription. (© Hamilton Kerr Institute, Cambridge; photograph Chris Titmus).
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2. Boats at quayside, by Alfred Wallis and Christopher Wood. 1929–30. Oil, house paint and pencil on canvas, 45.8 by 53.5 cm. (Private collection; © Hamilton Kerr Institute, Cambridge; photograph Chris Titmus).
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3. Map of Fig.2, showing Alfred Wallis’s involvement assesed by optical examination. (© Hamilton Kerr Institute, Cambridge).
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4. Detail of Fig.2, showing Wallis’s seagulls and his changes to the buildings’ windows.
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5. X-radiograph of Fig.2, showing distribution of barium (house paint) and lead white. (© Hamilton Kerr Institute, Cambridge).
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7. La Ville-Close, Concarneau, Brittany, by Christopher Wood. 1929–30. Oil on millboard, 36.8 by 81.6 cm. (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge; Bridgeman Images).
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8. Detail of Fig.2, showing the new building inserted by Wallis.
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6. Concarneau. – Sortie de la Ville Close et le Quai Pénéroff. Postcard. (Private collection).
Letter
The background of 'Portrait of Mai'
05/2023 | 1442 | 165
Pages: 492-3
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Barber, Peter (Barber, Peter)
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2. A view looking up the Vaitepiha River with two Tahitians in a canoe in the foreground, and two others on the bank. Tahitian houses to the right, August 1777, by John Webber. 1777. Pen, wash and watercolour, 44.5 by 63.3 cm. (British Library, London).
Article
G.F. Watts’s ‘Satan’ and the Monte Cavallo ‘Horse tamers’
07/2022 | 1432 | 164
Pages: 664-671
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Gustin, Melissa L. (Gustin, Melissa L.)
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1. Satan, by George Frederic Watts. 1847–48. Oil on canvas, 198.1 by 132.1 cm. (Watts Gallery–Artists’ Village, Compton).
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10. Study for Satan, by George Frederic Watts. c.1847–48. Pencil on paper, pasted into a scrapbook album, 16.6 by 11.3 cm. (Watts Gallery– Artists’ Village, Compton).
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11. Studies of a classical head in multiple views on the margin of a design for ‘Adam and Eve listening to an angel’, by George Frederic Watts. Pen and ink on paper, pasted into a historic scrapbook album, 12.5 by 17.8 cm. (Watts Gallery–Artists’ Village, Compton).
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12. Studies of nude riders on horseback, by George Frederic Watts. Before 1858. Pencil on paper, pasted into a historic scrapbook album, 22.9 by 18.5 cm. (Watts Gallery–Artists’ Village, Compton).
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13. Aurora, by George Frederic Watts. Plaster over metal armature, height 243 cm. (Watts Gallery–Artists’ Village, Compton).
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2. Fountain of Monte Cavallo in the Palazzo del Quirinale, Rome. 1860– 70. Albumen silver print, 33.3 by 46.2 cm. (The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; courtesy the Getty Open Content Program).
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3. Cast after the head of the left Monte Cavallo horse tamer, called ‘Pollux’. 18th century. Plaster, height 147 cm. (Royal Academy of Arts, London).
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4. Cast after the head of the right Monte Cavallo horse tamer, called ‘Castor’. 18th century. Plaster, height 147 cm. (Royal Academy of Arts, London).
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5. Study after the Monte Cavallo horse tamers, by George Frederic Watts. c.1847–48. Pencil on paper, (sheet) 9 by 14.5 cm. (Watts Gallery– Artists’ Village, Compton).
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6. Study after the Monte Cavallo horse tamers, by George Frederic Watts. c.1844. Pencil on paper, (sheet) 7.5 by 11 cm. (Watts Gallery– Artists’ Village, Compton).
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7. Study after the Monte Cavallo horse tamers, by George Frederic Watts. c.1847–48. Pencil on paper, 9 by 14.5 cm (page). (Watts Gallery– Artists’ Village, Compton).
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8. Sketch of the reclining male figure now called Dionysus from the east pediment of the Parthenon, by George Frederic Watts. c.1847–48. Pencil on paper, (sheet) 9 by 14.5 cm. (Watts Gallery–Artists’ Village, Compton).
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9. Study for Satan, by George Frederic Watts. c.1847–48. Pencil on paper, pasted into a scrapbook album, 18.3 by 11.6 cm. (Watts Gallery– Artists’ Village, Compton).
Article
A newly identified portrait by Sir Nathaniel Bacon
07/2022 | 1432 | 164
Pages: 641-649
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Hearn, Karen (Hearn, Karen)
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1. Self-portrait, by Nathaniel Bacon. c.1620. Oil on canvas, 206.4 by 153.7 cm. (Private collection).
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10. Self-portrait with his wife, Isabella Brant, by Peter Paul Rubens. c.1609–10. Oil on canvas, 178 by 136.5 cm. (Alte Pinakothek, Munich; Bridgeman Images).
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2. Detail of Fig.2, showing metal braid on Bacon’s jacket.
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3. The artist’s wife, Jane Bacon, Lady Cornwallis, née Meautys, here attributed to Nathaniel Bacon. c.1614–17. Oil on canvas, 203.2 by 149.8 cm. (Government House, Sydney; photograph Ondrej Koucky, Rapturous Media).
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4. Cookmaid with still life of vegetables and fruit, by Nathaniel Bacon. c.1620–25. Oil on canvas, 151 by 246.7 cm. (Tate).
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5. Detail of Brome Hall, Suffolk, by Johannes Kip. 1715. Engraving, 35.5 by 49 cm. (From J. Kip: Nouveau théâtre de la Grande Bretagne, London 1715, I, pl.44).
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6. Detail of Fig.3, showing Brome Hall.
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7. Monument to Jane, Lady Bacon, by Thomas Stanton. Commissioned 1657. Marble. (St Mary’s church, Culford, Suffolk).
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8. Detail of Fig.3, showing figures in the garden.
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9. Detail of Fig.3, showing the sitter’s hands and pregnant body.
Article
Gainsborough in London
05/2022 | 1430 | 164
Pages: 478-485
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Robinson, Duncan (Robinson, Duncan)
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1. The Mall in St James’s Park, by Thomas Gainsborough. c.1783. Oil on canvas, 120.6 by 147 cm. (Frick Collection, New York).
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2. Mrs George Drummond, attributed in the book under review to Thomas Gainsborough and Gainsborough Dupont and dated c.1784. Oil on canvas, 230.1 by 152 cm. (Montreal Museum of Fine Arts).
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3. Mrs Grace Dalrymple Elliott, by Thomas Gainsborough. 1777–78. Oil on canvas, 234.3 by 153.7 (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
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4. Samuel Linley, by Thomas Gainsborough. 1777–78. Oil on canvas, 75.9 by 63.5 cm. (Dulwich Picture Gallery).
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5. Karl Friedrich Abel, by Thomas Gainsborough. c.1765. Oil on canvas, 125 by 100 cm. (National Portrait Gallery, London).
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6. Diana and Actaeon, by Thomas Gainsborough. c.1785–88. Oil on canvas, 158.1 by 188 cm. (Royal Collection Trust; © HM Queen Elizabeth II 2022).
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7. The watering place, by Thomas Gainsborough. Before 1777. Oil on canvas, 147.3 by 180.3 cm. (National Gallery, London).
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8. The Marsham children, by Thomas Gainsborough. 1787. Oil on canvas, 242.9 by 181.9 cm. (Gemäldegalerie der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz; photograph Jörg P. Anders).
Article
Christian VII of Denmark’s lost British portraits
02/2022 | 1427 | 164
Pages: 155-163
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Author:
Ayres, Sara (Ayres, Sara)
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1. Christian VII in coronation robes, holding the crown and sceptre, by Alexander Roslin. 1772. Oil on canvas, 129 by 93 cm. (The Museum of National History, Frederiksborg Castle, Hillerød).
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2. Augusta, Duchess of Brunswick, with her son, by Angelica Kauffmann. 1767. Oil on canvas, 272.1 by 180.6 cm. (Royal Collection Trust; © HM Queen Elizabeth II, 2022).
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3. Christian VII, King of Denmark, by Nathaniel Dance Holland. 1768. Oil on canvas, 76.6 by 63 cm. (Royal Collection Trust; © HM Queen Elizabeth II, 2022).
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4. Christian VII, King of Denmark, by Richard Houston, after Angelica Kauffmann. c.1768–75. Mezzotint, 39.9 by 28.9 cm. (Royal Collection Trust; © HM Queen Elizabeth II, 2022).
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5. Queen Caroline Matilda, by James Watson, after Francis Cotes. c.1766–71. Mezzotint, 37.6 by 27.6 cm. (Royal Collection Trust; © HM Queen Elizabeth II, 2022).
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6. Christian VII, King of Denmark, after Angelica Kauffmann. 1768. Oil on canvas, 23.5 by 19 cm. (The Museum of National History, Frederiksborg Castle, Hillerød).
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7. Christian VII, King of Denmark, here attributed to Edward Francis Cunningham (Calze). 1768. Pastel on paper, 62.5 by 51.4 cm. (Rosenborg Slot, Copenhagen).
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8. Christian VII, King of Denmark, formerly attributed to Angelica Kauffmann. 1768. Oil on canvas, 91 by 71 cm. (Private collection, Darmstadt).
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9. Christian VII, King of Denmark, formerly attributed to Angelica Kauffmann. 1768. Oil on canvas, 91 by 72 cm. (Private collection, Copenhagen).
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