Stuartporträtten på Håtunaholm

Abstract

Summary A collection of Stuart portraits at Hatunaholm by Professor August Hahr. — At Hatunaholm Manor in Uppland the present owner, Bo Montgomery, Ph. Doc., has founded an important art collection, which includes a series of Royal Stuart portraits. The first number in the series is a half–length portrait of Mary Queen of Scots (fig. 1), painted in 1571 during her imprisonment in Tutbury Castle. The Dutch painter — the attribution of the portrait to Lucas de Heere (1534–84) must be regarded as very uncertain — has shown great skill, especially in the execution of the face and the hands, and with fine psychological insight has given individual life to the facial expression. Another portrait (fig. 2), which is somewhat stiff in its composition but warm and harmonious in its colour–tones, shows her son, James I, painted by Daniel Mijtens (1590–1656). Charles I (fig. 3) is painted by Anthony van Dyck (1599–1641). It is a typical late product of the master, somewhat effeminate and coquettish, and is not altoge...