Long live Charles III
October 4 2012
Picture: Highland Council/PCF
Fellow Jacobites will be pleased to see this portrait of Bonnie Prince Charlie firmly catalogued as 'Charles III' on the Your Paintings website. It belongs to the Highland Council, which gives you some idea of the residual Jacobite loyalties up in highland Scotland.
The artist is given as 'Attributed to Pompeo Battoni'. But it is of course a Hugh Douglas Hamilton type, and would appear to be by him. You can see another version here at the NPG. It's a rare portrait of Charles as an older man, and rather sad.
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