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Description: | 1/2 portrait of King James II, facing left. Curled moustache and thin beard, shoulder length brown hair, wearing an angled bonnet. He is holding a scroll in left hand, which has a gold ring on his 1st and 3rd finger. He is wearing a red ermine and sable trimmed gown white undershirt. Painted on a plain brown background. Probably a copy of a painting by Jacob de Witt (or de Wet) (1640-97) for Holyrood House. Part of a series; The de Witt paintings were based on paintings by George Jamesone, Location (1908) - On staircase to Senatus room.
"Probably a copy from a series of portraits of Scottish monarchs painted Jacob de Witt or de Wet (1640-97) for Holyrood House. De Witt's paintings were themselves based on a series of paintings by George Jamesone. This is one of a large number of images of the Stuart dynasty in general in the university collection. These images attest to Stuart Royal patronage of King's College and later to the prolonged Jacobite sympathies of both King's and Marischal Colleges."
Author: Morrison,John Date: 2002 Purpose: HA3541
Acquisition source: Kesson, John (?) | License: | http://www.abdn.ac.uk/historic/Copyright_terms_conditions.shtml | Publisher: | ABDUA University of Aberdeen, Marischal Museum | Rights holder: | 47718 | Temporal: | 1680-1800 | Source: | University of Aberdeen | Identifier: | http://calms.abdn.ac.uk/Geology/dserve.e... | Go to resource |
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