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Description: | Complete with luxurious brown wig, gold epaulets and lace cravat, the Pretender is depicted in an oval cartouche. One of France's foremost portrait painters, Troy's painting of James Edward Stuart was undoubtedly copied and re-copied throughout the eighteenth-century. This painting may have remained in France for many decades. Alternatively, it may have found its way into a British household, one would suspect covertly. At first such images might have been quietly purchased by secret Jacobites, in England at least (attitudes to Jacobitism were different in Scotland, particularly the highlands). Towards the end of the century, when the last of the Stuart line had died and the threat of any return dissolved into a form of nostalgia, it may have become more socially acceptable to publicly display pictures of the Old Pretender on English walls. | Subjects: | James Francis Edward) portrait (Stuart | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Troy, François de (French painter, born 1645 or 1646, died 1730) Æ Attributed to school of | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8724... | Go to resource |
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