Prince Charles Edward Stuart
1 portrait
Prince Charles Edward Stuart
by Hugh Douglas Hamilton
oil on canvas, circa 1785
9 7/8 in. x 8 3/4 in. (251 mm x 222 mm) oval
Purchased, 1873
Primary Collection
NPG 376
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Sitterback to top
- Prince Charles Edward Stuart (1720-1788), Grandson of James II; 'Bonnie Prince Charlie'. Sitter associated with 43 portraits.
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This portrait was painted by the Irish artist, Hugh Douglas Hamilton, while living in Rome. It depicts Bonnie Prince Charlie in old age, which he passed in rather pathetic retirement in Rome. He was described as of 'a melancholy, mortified appearence' by a visitor to Rome in 1770. The portrait is housed in a Roman neoclassical frame of a type associated with the artist.
Linked publicationsback to top
- Cullen, Fintan, The Irish Face: Redefining the Irish Portrait, 2004, p. 88
- Kerslake, John, Early Georgian Portraits, 1977, p. 40
- Saywell, David; Simon, Jacob, Complete Illustrated Catalogue, 2004, p. 118
- Simon, Jacob, The Art of the Picture Frame: Artists, Patrons and the Framing of Portraits in Britain, 1997 (accompanying the exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery from 8 November 1996 - 9 February 1997), p. 164
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On display at Culloden Battlefield Visitor Centre, Inverness
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