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A Jacobite Gazetteer - Germany - Hannover
The Landesgalerie Hannover is the state art collection in the city of Hanover. The gallery owns an oil on canvas portrait (71 x 58 cm) of James, Prince of Wales (later King James III and VIII by François de Troy.1 James wears a metal breastplate over a red jacket. Over the breastplate he wears the blue sash of the Most Noble Order of the Garter. The portrait is dated to 1700. It was acquired by the Landesgalerie Hannover in 1887.2 |
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Notes 1 François de Troy was born in Toulouse in 1645, and died in Paris in 1730. He painted numerous portraits for the Royal Family. Another portrait of James by Troy can be seen in the Palazzo Corsini in Rome. 2 Harald Seiler, Niedersächsische Landesgalerie Hannover (Köln: M. DuMont Schauberg, 1969), 259. Image 1 (James, Prince of Wales): Edward Corp, The King Over the Water: Portraits of the Stuarts in Exile after 1689 (Edinburgh: Scottish National Portrait Gallery, 2001), 40. A larger, but black-and-white, photograph of the portrait is in Seiler, 104. |
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