Catherine of Braganza

1 portrait

by or after Dirk Stoop
oil on canvas, circa 1660-1661
48 1/2 in. x 39 1/2 in. (1232 mm x 1003 mm)
Bequeathed by Harold Lee-Dillon, 17th Viscount Dillon, 1933
Primary Collection
NPG 2563

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Sitterback to top

Catherine of Braganza (1638-1705), Queen of Charles II. Sitter associated with 62 portraits.

Artistback to top

Dirk Stoop (circa 1610-circa 1685). Artist associated with 8 portraits.

This portraitback to top

In this portrait Catherine is dressed in the Portuguese court style, which was mocked in England, and which she quickly abandoned.

Related worksback to top

NPG 353: Catherine of Braganza (after)
NPG D22671: Catherine of Braganza (after)

Linked publicationsback to top

Macleod, Catharine; Alexander, Julia Marciari, Painted Ladies: Women at the Court of Charles II, 2001 (accompanying the exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery from 11 October 2001 to 6 January 2002), p. 82
Piper, David, Catalogue of Seventeenth Century Portraits in the National Portrait Gallery, 1625-1714, 1963, p. 56
Saywell, David; Simon, Jacob, Complete Illustrated Catalogue, 2004, p. 110
Williamson, David, The National Portrait Gallery: History of the Kings and Queens of England, 1998, p. 118
Williamson, David, Kings and Queens, 2010, p. 116