Focus on Lost portrait of Charles Edward Stuart and analyze the Painting.
The small painting, 12 by 10 inches (30 by 25 centimetres), is the only one of Charles known to have been painted in Britain. The painting was intended to be taken to England and be both reproduced in engravings and used as the "basis for an official royal portrait" if the Jacobites succeeded in restoring the Stuarts to the throne. Christopher Baker, the director of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, said on the painting's acquisition:It is a little gem of a picture, almost on a miniature scale, which was likely produced on that scale because it was planned from the outset that it would be replicated as prints. It becomes the key source for an awful lot of propaganda to support the Jacobite cause, which were widely distributed, not just in Scotland, but right across Britain and Europe.
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