Portrait of Queen Henrietta Maria, as St Catherine

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Portrait of Queen Henrietta Maria, as St Catherine is a painting by Sir Anthony van Dyck.

History

The portrait of Queen Henrietta Maria, as St. Catherine of Alexandria was painted by van Dyck around 1639. She is depicted in a red dress, wearing a coronet and holding a wheel representing the wheel used to torture St Catherine of Alexandria.

There are numerous copies of the portrait, one of which was sold at Bonhams for £9,000 in October 2004.^[1]

Another copy, dated 1649, by Matthew Snelling, is in Alnwick Castle.^[2]

Fake or Fortune?

The portrait featured in the BBC TV programme, Fake or Fortune?.^[3]^[4] Philip Mould owned a portrait of Queen Henrietta Maria in a blue dress. This had been sold at Christie's on 24 January 2012.^[5] At that time it was described as being "after van Dyck". It was estimated at £4,000 - £6,000 but realised £8,750 (including buyer's premium).

An X-ray suggested that Mould's portrait contained a smaller original which had been enlarged and over painted in the 18th century.^[3]^[6] Removal of the over-painting revealed an unfinished portrait of the Queen as St Catherine, which was subsequently attributed to Van Dyck at the conclusion of the programme by Dr Christopher Brown, director of the Ashmolean Museum and an authority on van Dyck.^[3]

Following the programme, the restored portrait went on display in the Banqueting House, Whitehall, where Henrietta once lived.^[3]^[7]

References

^ http://artsalesindex.artinfo.com/asi/lots/132287
^ "Queen Henrietta Maria as St. Catherine". 1649.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Van Dyck: What Lies Beneath". Fake or Fortune?. Series 2. Episode 3. 30 September 2012. BBC. Retrieved 5 October 2012.
^ Wilson, Benji (16 September 2012). "Van Dyck or Van Dupe?". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 19 September 2012.
^ Christie's sale 4102, lot 261
^ London Art News
^ Art History News

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Religious subjects	Entry of Christ into Jerusalem (1617) Crucifixion with Saints (1617–1619) Saint Martin Dividing his Cloak (1618) The Brazen Serpent (c. 1618–1620) The Apostle Matthew (c. 1618–1620) The Crowning with Thorns (1618–1620) The Betrayal of Christ (1618–1620) Bristol Madrid Minneapolis Saint Ambrose barring Theodosius from Milan Cathedral (c. 1619–1620) Samson and Delilah 1620 1630 Susanna and the Elders (c. 1631–1632) Madonna and Child (1621–1627) The Mocking of Christ (1628–1630) The Coronation of Saint Rosalia (1629) The Vision of the Blessed Hermann Joseph (1629–1630) Madonna and Child with Two Donors (1630) Rest on the Flight into Egypt (1630) Crucifixion (1630) The Ressurrection (1631–1632) Madonna with Partridges (1632) Deposition / Lamentation over the Dead Christ 1615 1618 1619 1629 1629–1630 1634 1635 1640
Saint Rosalia series (1624–1625)	Houston London Madrid New York Ponce Palermo (studio work) Munich (autograph or studio)
Mythological subjects	Drunken Silenus (1620) Jupiter and Antiope (1620) Diana and a Nymph Surprised by a Satyr (1622–1627) The Shepherd Paris (1628) Thetis Receiving the Weapons of Achilles from Hephaestus (1630–1632) Venus Asks Vulcan to Forge Arms for her Son Aeneas (1630–1632) Cupid and Psyche (1638–1640)
Portraits	Theresa Shirley (1622) Robert Shirley (1622) Cardinal Guido Bentivoglio (c. 1623) The Lomellini Family (c. 1625–1627) Gaston, Duke of Orléans (1632 or 1634) Charles I with M. de St Antoine (1633) Equestrian Portrait of Francisco de Moncada (1634) Francisco de Moncada (1634) Thomas Francis, Prince of Carignano (1634) Charles I at the Hunt (c. 1635) Charles I in Three Positions (1635 or 1636) The Three Eldest Children of Charles I (Turin) (1635) The Three Eldest Children of Charles I (Royal Collection) (1636) Equestrian Portrait of Charles I (1637–1638) Triple Portrait of Henrietta Maria (1638) Mary Hill, Lady Killigrew (1638) William Killigrew (1638) Queen Henrietta Maria, as St Catherine (1639) Luigia Cattaneo-Gentile (c. 1622) Magistrates of Brussels (Preparatory sketch) (1634–1635) Olivia Porter (1630s) Mary Villiers, Lady Herbert of Shurland (c. 1636) Lord John Stuart and his Brother, Lord Bernard Stuart (c. 1638)
Self-portraits	Vienna (1613–1614) New York (1620–1621) Self-Portrait with a Sunflower (1632–1633) Self-portrait with Sir Endymion Porter (1635) London (1640)
Other paintings	A Soldier on Horseback (c. 1616) Mucius Scaevola before Lars Porsenna (c. 1618–1620)
Related	Hendrick van Balen the Elder (master) Peter Paul Rubens (master) Paul de Vos (collaborator) Van Dyke beard

Portrait of Queen Henrietta Maria, as St Catherine

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Fake or Fortune?

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