Portrait of Charles I (1600–1649) (1600s or later): Art, History and Details

Portrait of Charles I (1600–1649) (1600s or later) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Anthony van Dyck (Flemish, 1599–1641).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

This is a fragment of a copy of van Dyck's portrait of 1632. Originally a double portrait, the painting would have included Charles I's wife, Queen Henrietta-Maria. An avid art collector, Charles I lured many important artists, including van Dyck and Rubens, from the Continent to England. Charles I was beheaded in 1649; however, the monarchy was later restored in 1660 by his son, Charles II.

Object facts

• Title: Portrait of Charles I (1600–1649)
• Date: 1600s or later
• Creator attribution: Anthony van Dyck (Flemish, 1599–1641)
• Culture: Flanders
• Type: Painting
• Technique: oil on canvas
• Dimensions: Framed: 153.7 x 130.2 x 105.4 cm (60 1/2 x 51 1/4 x 41 1/2 in.); Unframed: 116.8 x 96.3 cm (46 x 37 15/16 in.)
• Collection: P - Netherlandish-Flemish
• Department: European Painting and Sculpture
• Accession number: 1916.1039

Collection credit

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Wade

Further reading listed by the museum

• The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings, Part 3: European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982.
• The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings, Part 3: European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982.
• "Report of the Museum's Second Year." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 5, no. 6/7 (1918): 69-79.

View the collection record

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