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| Keywords: pfa83000 portrait henry stewart earl darnley 1545-67 154567 panel 99:sword 99sword ruff husband mary queen scots scottish elizabethan stuart murdered vanson adrian fl 1580-1601 15801601 attr phillips the international fine art auctioneers uk english personalities royalty/rulers royaltyrulers great britain british royalty 17th oil people indoor This portrait of the husband to Mary Queen of Scots, King Consort of Scotland, shows him prominently wearing the insignia of the Order of the Garter, and may have been painted therefore for an English patron. Darnley's murder in 1567 in which the Queen was implicated was the last hammer blow to the safety of her rule and precipitated the events which led her to be a two decades' prisoner in England and finally to suffer execution there. PFA83000 Portrait of Henry Stewart, Earl of Darnley (1545-67) (panel) by Vanson, Adrian (fl.1580-1601) (attr. to) oil on panel 75x59 Phillips, The International Fine Art Auctioneers, UK © Bonhams, London, UK English, out of copyright This portrait of the husband to Mary Queen of Scots, King Consort of Scotland, shows him prominently wearing the insignia of the Order of the Garter, and may have been painted therefore for an English patron. Darnley's murder in 1567 in which the Queen was implicated was the last hammer blow to the safety of her rule and precipitated the events which led her to be a two decades' prisoner in England and finally to suffer execution there. PFA83000 Portrait of Henry Stewart, Earl of Darnley (1545-67) (panel) by Vanson, Adrian (fl.1580-1601) (attr. to) oil on panel 75x59 Phillips, The International Fine Art Auctioneers, UK © Bonhams, London, UK English, out of copyright | ||||
