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King George and Queen Charlotte

Date

1792

Creator

James Barry

Location

Raclin Murphy Museum of Art

King George and Queen Charlotte shows on one sheet Barry’s ideas for individual portraits of the king and queen engaged in enlightened practices (the king ensuring the independence of the judiciary and the queen promoting domestic education). He had hoped at one point that these paintings would replace two portraits already in the Great Room at the Royal Society of Arts: Reynolds’s portrait of Lord Romney, the Society’s second president, and Gainsborough’s portrait of Lord Folkestone, its first. However, the artist was never permitted to supplant these portraits with those of the royal couple or with two other designs that he created for the Great Room in 1801. from Bindman, No Cross, No Crown: Prints by James Barry from the Collection of William L. and Nancy Pressly (Notre Dame, 2016)

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King George and Queen Charlotte shows on one sheet Barry’s ideas for individual portraits of the king and queen engaged in enlightened practices (the king ensuring the independence of the judiciary and the queen promoting domestic education). He had hoped at one point that these paintings would replace two portraits already in the Great Room at the Royal Society of Arts: Reynolds’s portrait of Lord Romney, the Society’s second president, and Gainsborough’s portrait of Lord Folkestone, its first. However, the artist was never permitted to supplant these portraits with those of the royal couple or with two other designs that he created for the Great Room in 1801. from Bindman, No Cross, No Crown: Prints by James Barry from the Collection of William L. and Nancy Pressly (Notre Dame, 2016)
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James Barry (Irish, 1741 - 1806)
1792
Prints
Etching and engraving on laid paper
2015.001.016
intaglio prints
kings
portraits
queens
Not on view, please request access
18 x 22 in. (45.72 x 55.88 cm)
Terry and Margaret Stent Fund

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