Room 2 – The Making of a Prince<\/b><\/p>\n
The highlight of this room for me was Prince Henry\u2019s copy-book, dating from 1604-1606.<\/p>\n
\u2018This is a copy-book in which Prince Henry practised his handwriting. On the left hand page are flourishes, letters, latin phrases and his own signature, on the right hand page he was copied out, repeatedly a passage in latin.\u2019 (NPG)<\/p>\n
You can view it at the NPG website:<\/p>\n
National Portrait Gallery \u2013 The Making of a Prince<\/a><\/p>\n Also on display is a marvellous painting of:<\/p>\n Prince Henry with Robert Deveraux (3rd Earl of Essex) And a fascinating and colourful document:<\/p>\n Letters Patent of James I, creating his son Henry Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester Room 3 \u2013 Festivals, Masques and Tournaments<\/b><\/p>\n This room includes 2 suits of armour that belonged to Prince Henry.<\/p>\n Prince Henry\u2019s armour Prince Henry\u2019s armour for the field, tilt, tourney and barriers The suit is described as \u2018blued steel, gilt brass, copper-zinc alloys.\u2019 \u2018It is decorated with emblems of the kingdoms to which the Stuart royal family laid claim: the Scots thistle, English Tudor Rose, and the French fleur-de lys\u2026The thistle is dominant, reflecting Henry\u2019s Scottish birth.\u2019 (NPG)<\/p>\n You can view one of the suits of armour at the NPG website:<\/p>\n >Room 3 \u2013 Festivals, Masques and Tournaments<\/a><\/p>\n Alongside the two suits of armour is a miniature portrait of Henry wearing a suit of armour. According to the NPG this suit of armour is still in the Royal Collection today.<\/p>\n Prince Henry in French armour (miniature) Also on display are various miniatures, including the one used in all the publicity for the exhibition.<\/p>\n One of only 2 known miniatures of Prince Henry by Nicholas Hilliard.<\/p>\n 2 miniatures of Prince Henry The rest of the display features sketches for various masques commissioned by Queen Anne and Prince Henry. <\/p>\n Anne of Denmark in Masque Costume Henry Prince of Wales in profile Read more at Festivals, Masques and Tournaments<\/a><\/p>\n Room 4 – Princely Collecting<\/b><\/p>\n 2 sketches by Hans Holbein<\/p>\n Henry Prince of Wales Prince Henry on Horseback Read more about Henry\u2019s collection – National Portrait Gallery \u2013 Princely Collecting<\/a><\/p>\n Room 5 \u2013 Prince Henry and the Wider World<\/b><\/p>\n The highlights of this room were a painting commemorating \u2018the departure of Princess Elizabeth and Frederick V Elector of Palatine, following their marriage in February 2013.\u2019 (NPG)<\/p>\n The Embarkation of the Elector Palatine in the Prince Royal from Margate You can view the painting at National Portrait Gallery \u2013 Prince Henry and the Wider World<\/a><\/p>\n There are also miniatures of:<\/p>\n Christian IV King of Denmark Frederick Elector Palatine Room 6 \u2013 \u2018Our Rising Sun is Set: the Death of Prince Henry<\/b><\/p>\n After the last few rooms with paintings showing the Prince as an active young man, the final room comes as a shock. Dimly lit with funereal music playing it brings home the tragedy of the death of the Prince of Wales.<\/p>\n The focus of the room is the remains of the funeral effigy used at Prince Henry\u2019s funeral. The wooden figure is missing its head and hands. According to the NPG it is the \u2018first known funeral effigy of a royal heir.\u2019 <\/p>\n You can view the effigy at the National Portrait Gallery\u2019s blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n Also on display is an engraving of the Prince\u2019s hearse bearing the effigy in the funeral procession by William Hole (1612, engraving on paper).<\/p>\n In \u2018Henry Prince of Wales and England\u2019s Lost Renaissance\u2019, Roy Strong writes:<\/p>\n \u2018Scarcely a decade after the death of Queen Elizabeth I in March 1603 the streets of London echoed once again to sounds of grief as a cavalcade bore the body of a king-to-be. James I\u2019s eldest son, Henry Prince of Wales, was eighteen when he died on 6 November 2012. The sense of tragic loss at the time was such that he was to remain for long an ideal monarch England never had. And what a procession it was. Over a mile long, with some two thousand mourners in black, including all the members of his household and his friends, it took no less than four hours to marshal. Out of the Prince\u2019s red-brick Tudor palace of St James\u2019s it wended its way to Westminster Abbey amidst an \u2018Ocean of Tears.\u2019 Isaac Wake, secretary to ambassador Dudley Carleton, describes the climax: a chariot drawn by six horses, preceded by armorial banners and insignia, over which knights carried a mighty canopy:<\/p>\n \u2026vnder that laye the goodly image of that lovely prince clothed with the ritchest garments he had, which did so liuely represent his person, as that it did not onely draw teares from the severest beholder, but cawsed a fearefull outcrie among the people as if they felt at the present their iwne ruine in that loss. I must confess never to have seen such a sight of mortification in my life, nor neuer so iust a sorrowe so well expressed as in all the spectators whose streaming eyes made knowen howe much inwardly their harts did bleed.<\/p>\n In the Abbey stood \u2018a great stately hearse\u2019, six ionic pillars supporting a pyramidal structure decked with a profusion of banners, arms and mottoes. Within it reclined a slight figure, the diadem of his principality of Wales on his head, and the verge or rod of office, also bestowed on him at his investiture, in his right hand. The effigy lay enfolded in a velvet-lined mantle with the chain of the Order of the Garter encircling his shoulders.\u2019 (p7. Strong)<\/i><\/p>\n The room also includes portraits of the Royal family in mourning.<\/p>\n Anne of Denmark Princess Elizabeth Princess Elizabeth \u2018wears a black arm band, indicating her mourning for her brother.\u2019 (NPG)<\/p>\n \u2018Also on display is one of a number of surviving early copies of the autopsy findings\u2019 (NPG).<\/p>\n The exhibition ends with a portrait of Henry.<\/p>\n Henry, Prince of Wales Sources<\/p>\n National Portrait Gallery \u2013 The Lost Prince: The Life & Death of Henry Stuart \u2013 Explore the Exhibition<\/a><\/p>\n National Portrait Gallery Blog – Rediscoverng Henry\u2019s \u2018body\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n \u2018Henry Prince of Wales and England\u2019s Lost Renaissance\u2019 by Roy Strong, Thames and Hudson, 1986.<\/p>\n ‘Portraits of a Lost Prince’ by Christopher Hart, The Culture – The Sunday Times – 30\/09\/2012<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Two weeks ago I went to \u2018The Lost Prince Exhibition\u2019 at the National Portrait Gallery. It was wonderful and a must see! The Sunday Times Culture writes: \u2018Four hundred years after Henry\u2019s death in 1612, the National Portrait Gallery is … Continue reading
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\nRobert Peake the Elder<\/p>\n
\n4 June 1610<\/p>\n
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\n1610-12 and 1612
\nIsaac Oliver<\/p>\n
\nIsaac Oliver
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\nIsaac Oliver
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\nRobert Peake the Elder<\/p>\n
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\nRobert Peake the Elder<\/p>\n
\n25 April 1613
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\nAdam Willaerts<\/p>\n
\nUncle to Prince Henry
\nJacob van der Doort
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\nIsaac Oliver
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\nDaniel Mytens after Isaac Oliver
\nOil on panel, 1628<\/p>\n