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FREDERIKSBORG.
Chap. XXV.
it must be Villiers Duke of Buckingham, Lord High
Admiral of England: he was, as you know, an especial
favourite of Queen Anne of Denmark, and Christian
may have brought over his portrait on his visit to
England.*
Charles II., James II., and their younger brother
Harry of Gloucester, who died almost immediately after
the restoration: a true Stuart the latter, with large
expressive eyes. The three brothers are all dressed alike,
clad in black armour, under which appear
orange-coloured tunics. James, then Duke of York, in the
exuberance of his affection to his sister Mary—for their
portraits must have been painted at the Hague during the
visit of the three brothers in 1655-6—bears upon his
helm a splendid panache of orange-coloured feathers; a
badge, in later days, he was not likely to regard with
approbation. Then we have Mary, their sister, by
Honthorst the younger; and Mary Princess of Orange,
mother-of King William, a widow at nineteen.
From this time—indeed I may say from the period
of Christian IV.—the portraits degenerate. The Dutch
school of itself, as well as the Danish, formed under Carl
van Mander, A. Wuchter, and others, gives way to the
Court painters of the French school, showy, and
attractive if you will; but against the first of these painters
we must not complain, for in the portrait of Henrietta of
Orleans, daughter of Charles I., by Daguerre, we have
a very gem of beauty. Her fate is too well known to
require commentary, poisoned by the Chevalier de Lorraine
* By referring to engravings in England I have since discovered
this portrait to be that of Buckingham ; as well as a smaller one in the
Stuart Chamber, supposed to be a member of the Palgrave family.
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