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Bonnie Prince Charlie or the Young Pretender, was the grandson of James II, who was deposed in 1688. In 1745 he landed in Scotland and led a rising of the Highland clans, in an attempt to regain the British throne. He caused panic in London by reaching as far south as Derby before retreating. His defeat at Culloden by the Duke of Cumberland in 1746 saw the end of the Jacobite cause.Bonnie Prince Charlie in old age, which he passed in rather pathetic retirement in Rome. He was described as of 'a melancholy, mortified appearence' by a visitor to Rome in 1770. In a Roman neoclassical frame of a type associated with the artist.

National Portrait Gallery, London

London

Title

Prince Charles Edward Stuart

Date

c.1785

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 25.1 x W 22.2 cm

Accession number

376

Acquisition method

Purchased, 1873. On long-term loan to Culloden Battlefield Visitor Centre, Scotland

Work type

Painting

National Portrait Gallery, London

St Martin’s Place, London, Greater London WC2H 0HE England

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Artist or maker

Hugh Douglas Hamilton

1739–1808

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Lady Cecilia La Touche, née Leeson English Heritage, Kenwood
Sir Rowland Winn (1739–1785), 5th Bt, and His Wife Sabine Louise d'Hervart (1734–1798), in the Library at Nostell Priory National Trust, Nostell Priory
Lady Louise Mary Ann Julia Harriet Lowry-Corry (1781–1862), Countess of Sandwich National Trust, Castle Coole
Prince Charles Edward Stuart National Portrait Gallery, London
Prince Charles Edward Stuart (1720–1788), Eldest Son of Prince James Francis Edward Stuart National Galleries of Scotland, Scottish National Portrait Gallery
Robert Stewart (1769–1822), Viscount Castlereagh Parliamentary Art Collection
Mary Anne Caldwell (d.1841), Countess Belmore National Trust, Castle Coole
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