Henry Frederick Stuart, Prince of Wales (1594 - 1612).
One of The Seven Terracotta Busts by Michael Rysbrack,
Accidently Destroyed when a Shelf Collapsed
at Windsor Castle in 1906.
The Original Photographs were taken by Livingstone in 1874 for a royal inventory.
The busts had been moved to Windsor Castle in 1825 when Queen Caroline’s library at St James’s Palace was demolished.
The busts had been moved to Windsor Castle in 1825 when Queen Caroline’s library at St James’s Palace was demolished.
Henry, Prince of Wales shown wearing the order of the garter.
First child of James VI of Scotland ( James I of England) and Anne of Denmark. Older brother of Charles I.
Royal Collection Trust / © HM Queen Elizabeth II, 2015.
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Henry, Prince of Wales.
Wearing the order of the Garter.
Watercolour, Vellum on card, 13.2 x 10cms to frame.
Royal Collection Trust / © HM Queen Elizabeth II, 2015.
There are many versions of this portrait including several in the Royal collection - this is the largest.
This portrait was probably commissioned by Henry, Prince of Wales; Charles I, by c.1639; Charles II; left the Royal Collection some time during the early eighteenth century; unknown sale, April 1751; where bought by James West; Rundell, Bridge & Rundell; from whom acquired by George IV, 7 August 1807; left the Royal Collection again at an uncertain date; recovered by Sir John Cowell (Master of the Household) from a cottage near Windsor, 1863.
Royal Collection Trust / © HM Queen Elizabeth II, 2015.
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Isaac Oliver
Watercolour on vellum 7.7 x 5.6 cm
This miniature is one of many signed, reduced versions in existence; some may have been completed during the Prince’s lifetime, but many are likely to have been produced posthumously.
George Vertue recorded the present miniature ‘amongst Dr. Meads limnings one very curious of P. Henry. eldest son of K.J. first’.28 In 1738, it was engraved in reverse while still in Dr Mead’s collection by Jacob Houbraken for Thomas Birch’s Heads of Illustrious Persons of Great Britain (1743), and soon afterwards it was purchased by Frederick, Prince of Wales, for his collection of miniatures.
Provenance Dr Richard Mead (1673-1754), purchased by Frederick, Prince of Wales between 1745 and 1751.
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Commemorative Medallion of Henry Prince of Wales
attributed to Charles Anthony of the Royal Mint c.1612.
29 mm diam.
Image from http://www.pdmedallions.co.uk//index.php
Copyright © 2015 P&D Medallions
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Engraving of Henry Prince of Wales after Isaac Oliver
by Robert White (1645 - 1703).
154 x 100 cms. c. 1684 -1700.
British Museum
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Henry Prince of Wales.
Engraved by George Vertue (1684 - 1756) after an original by Isaac Oliver in the collection of Richard Meade MD.
30 x 19.4 cms platemark.
Royal Collection Trust / © HM Queen Elizabeth II, 2015.
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Engraving of Henry Prince of Wales
Jacobus Houbraken (1698 - 1780), after the original by Isaac Oliver
in the collection of Richard Meade MD.
From Birch's Heads.
372 mm x 231 mm. 1738.
NPG.
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Henry, Prince of Wales
11.1 x 8.4cms
Engraving by van de Passe
A plate from Crispin van de Passe's Regiae Anglicae Majestatis pictura, et historica declaratio (1604).
It might be a coincidence but the collar on this engraving is close to that on the Rysbrack bust. This leads me to believe that Rysbrack's portrait was a conflation of this engraving and the laste 17th century engraving by Robert White above.
Henry Prince of Wales by van Dyck.
Oil on canvas - 215.8 x 120.4 cms.
Royal Collection Trust / © HM Queen Elizabeth II, 2015.
This portrait was painted by Van Dyck during his second visit to London twenty years after the Prince's death, presumably to form part of Charles I's royal family portrait gallery in the Cross Gallery at Somerset House.
The artist based the head on a large miniature by Isaac Oliver in the collection of Charles I. He dressed him in a famous armour for field and tilt made at Greenwich by William Pickering c. 1610 decorated with the emblems of the Union of the Crowns (RCIN 72831). Both these sources, the miniature and armour are still in the Royal Collection. (see image below).
Royal Collection Trust / © HM Queen Elizabeth II, 2015.
