Robert I. Frost

The Polish Portrait of Bonnie Prince Charlie

Buch

This book is a study of an eighteenth-century portrait of a youth in Polish dress, owned by the National Portrait Gallery in London since 1922, but never publicly displayed. Two inscriptions claim that it is a portrait of Charles Edward Stuart, popularly known as ¿Bonnie Prince Charlie¿. The Gallery has always doubted its authenticity and leading experts on Stuart portraiture have dismissed the identification. This study, by a historian of Poland-Lithuania, is the first detailed attempt to research the painting properly. Based on archival sources, it examines its provenance and the connections of its first known owner with the Kinlochmoidart… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-3-030-99935-3
EAN: 9783030999353
Produktnummer: 38863186
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Seitenangabe: 152 S.
Masse: H21.6 cm x B15.3 cm x D1.3 cm 318 g
Auflage: 1st ed. 2022
Abbildungen: HC runder Rücken kaschiert
Gewicht: 318

Über den Autor

Robert I. Frost was educated at the University of St Andrews, the Jagiellonian University, Cracow, and the University of London, where he wrote his doctoral thesis. He is a historian of Poland-Lithuania, who has also published on the history of Scandinavia.