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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Fencer: [QB] NOTES ON THE AUTHENTIC PORTRAITS OF MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS (pages 5-6) [b]Until the Stuart Exhibition in 1889 the various Exhibitions in which the portraits of Mary Stuart had been collected together had only served to make confusion worse confounded. Ladies with black, brown, or red hair, with black, brown, or blue eyes, with aquiline noses or r&roussds, tall or short, thin or plump, all appeared in numbers, asserting themselves to represent the Queen of Scotland. Of all this medley but the merest fragment could really claim to have any authenticity. The interest in historical portraiture is of comparatively recent awakening. The dilettante enthusiasm aroused by Horace Walpole and his friends, and other antiquaries of the same inclinations, had brought what was at first a mere collector's caprice into a fashionable craze. Portraits of historical personages were sought for high and low. Family history, county history, heraldry and genealogy, all became a necessary adjunct to the libraries of the noble and the rich. Where portraits were not forthcoming, there was ever, as now, a horde of needy copyists ready to supply them. Shakespeares, Miltons, Elizabeths, Raleighs, Nell Gwynns, began to bloom in every broker's window. Every Cavalier family found itself mysteriously possessed of important portraits of Charles I. and Henrietta Maria, bestowed either by them or their son upon the family hero for services rendered during the Civil Wars. For similar reasons Cromwell lowered from every parlour wall among Puritans and Nonconformists. Every family in Scotland, which could produce or invent the slightest excuse, revealed some portrait of the ill-fated Mary, Queen of Scots, which for various mysterious reasons had up to that time remained unnoticed. Most of these were endowed with apparently unimpeachable pedigrees. In all these matters the critical faculty was conspicuous by its absence, being replaced, adequately in the owner's opinion, by enthusiasm. [/b] Thing about this is that it was apparently so bad that they aren't 100% certain on the paintings they claim are authentic of Mary, the subject of the very book. On Mike's website there is a sketch of her in a white morning garnment. If I remember the passage, they reported on it first in france but there it was described as "defaced". -Actually found description In Van der Doort's catalogue of King's collection of Limings. "No. 14. Item a defaced picture of Queen Mary of Scotland in her white morning habit. given to the King by the Lord Marquiss of Hamilton"; [/QB][/QUOTE]
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