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studio of John de Critz the Elder, James I of England and VI of Scotland
Photo courtesy of Dave Penman (All rights reserved)
Details
- Country House
- Doddington Hall
- Title(s)
- James I of England and VI of Scotland
- Date
- ? c.1610
- Location
- Brown Parlour
- Medium and support
- Oil on panel
- Dimensions
- Overall height: 110 cm, Overall width: 85 cm
- Artist
- studio of John de Critz the Elder (1551/2-1642)
- Catalogue Number
- DN15
Bibliography
R.E.G. Cole, History of Doddington, otherwise Doddington-Pigot, in the County of Lincoln, and its successive owners, with pedigrees, Lincoln : James Williamson, 1897, pp. 218-9
Footnotes
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BHC 2796.
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Description
This is one of several variants of the three-quarter-length portrait of James I by John de Critz the Elder (c.1550–1642). Others include the versions in the National Maritime Museum1 and at Montacute House, presented by James I to the former speaker of the House of Commons Sir Edward Phelips. De Critz, who came to England from Antwerp as a child, was established as an independent artist by the 1590s. From 1603 he held the appointment of serjeant painter of the king, a post he held jointly with Leonard Fryer and subsequently Robert Peake. The composition has been dated to c.1610, by which time de Critz operated an extensive studio.