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Henry I

by British School

Date: c.1618-20

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Item details

  • Acquisition

    Alleyn Bequest, 1626

  • Accession number

    DPG523

  • Artist

    British School

  • Date

    c.1618-20

  • Dimensions

    56.8 x 42.5 cm

  • Inscription

    Inscribed, centre left: 'HENRY. I.'

  • Materials

    Oil on chamfered oak panel

DPG521-536 (and possibly After De Critz DPG384), one of sixteen or seventeen portraits surviving from a set of twenty-six assembled by Edward Alleyn in four batches from 1618 to 1620. These may well have been acquired, like Alleyn's similar set of Sibyls (British School DPG537-45), from 'Mr Gibkyn'. The images of the earlier Kings (from William Rufus to Henry IV) seem to be taken from the engravings of R. Elstrack in H. Holland's 'Baziliwlogia, a Booke of Kings', 1618.

Henry I

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