James I (1566-1625)
After an original in the Bear stake Gallery (van der Doort, WS 5, no 19). Interestingly, here it is called the Bear Steak Gallery
Van der Doort c.1639
WS 111, № 35
Hoskins after the original by Paul van Somer in the Bear stake Gallery
The 4th, James VI, black habit and laced ruff, corslet round his neck
Walpole Society reference (1960):
Measurements (Van der Doort):
2 1/8 x 1½in (5.4 x 3.8cm)
Medium:
oval lavender-coloured card
Light:
light from the right
Frame:
The 2nd and last bigger square and high frame – 1ft 6in+1/8 in x 8in+1/8 - in which space for two more pictures to come of your Majesty's progenitors, as yet unfinished [i.e. ten spaces; eight filled]
Location:
Room description extended:
4th Book containing all your Majesty's well limned pieces, kept at the moment in cupboards in the newly erected Cabinet Room, Whitehall
Original Manuscript page number:
Windsor MS., f. 61
Charles II inventory c1666:
Whitehall, no 454
Identification certainty:
Identified
Sale Inventory c.1649-51