King George III of England (1762) After Allan Ramsay - Antique Fine Art
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King George III of England (1762) After Allan Ramsay - Antique Fine Art:
$4.96
An Antique
Fine Art Print
of
\"King George III of England\"
Created fromthe original portrait by Allan Ramsay
In the National Portrait Gallery, London
Produced by \"The Connoisseur\", London
circa 1911
This item comprises the portrait as described above in good condition for its age.
Itis a genuinevintage being over 100 years old -NOT a modern reproduction.
NB: This item is being offered, suitablymounted, ready for framing.
FORMAT
Overall Size:- 7\" x 9\" including the mount.
Image Size:-4\" x5\" approx
About the Subject....
King George III (George William Frederick; 4 June 1738 – 29 January 1820)
He was King of Great Britain and King of Ireland from 25 October 1760 until the union of these two countries on 1 January 1801, after which he was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland until his death. He was concurrently Duke and prince-elector of Brunswick-Lüneburg (\"Hanover\") in the Holy Roman Empire until his promotion to King of Hanover on 12 October 1814.
He was the third British monarch of the House of Hanover, but unlike his two predecessors he was born in Britain, spoke English as his first language, and never visited Hanover.
His life and reign, which were longer than any other British monarch before him, were marked by a series of military conflicts involving his kingdoms, much of the rest of Europe, and places farther afield in Africa, the Americas and Asia. Early in his reign, Great Britain defeated France in the Seven Years\' War, becoming the dominant European power in North America and India. However, many of its American colonies were soon lost in the American Revolutionary War.
Further wars against revolutionary and Napoleonic France from 1793 concluded in the defeat of Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815.
In the later part of his life, George III suffered from recurrent, and eventually permanent, mental illness. Although it has since been suggested that he suffered from the blood disease porphyria, the cause of his illness remains unknown. After a final relapse in 1810, a regency was established, and George III\'s eldest son, George, Prince of Wales, ruled as Prince Regent. On George III\'s death, the Prince Regent succeeded his father as George IV.
Historical analysis of George III\'s life has gone through a \"kaleidoscope of changing views\" that have depended heavily on the prejudices of his biographers and the sources available to them. Until re-assessment occurred during the second half of the twentieth century, his reputation in the United States was one of a tyrant and in Britain he became;
\"....the scapegoat for the failure of imperialism\".
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About the Artist....
Allan Ramsay (13 October 1713 – 10 August 1784) was a Scottish portrait-painter.
Allan Ramsay was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, the eldest son of Allan Ramsay, poet and author of The Gentle Shepherd.
From the age of twenty he studied in London under the Swedish painter Hans Hysing, and at the St. Martin\'s Lane Academy; leaving in 1736 for Rome and Naples, where he worked for three years under Francesco Solimena and Imperiali (Francesco Fernandi). On his return in 1738 he first settled in Edinburgh, attracting attention by his head of Duncan Forbes of Culloden and his full-length portrait of the Duke of Argyll, later used on Royal Bank of Scotland banknotes.
He later moved to London, where he was employed by the Duke of Bridgewater.
His pleasant manners and varied culture, not less than his artistic skill, contributed to render him popular. His only serious competitor was Thomas Hudson, with whom he shared a drapery painter, Joseph van Aken. In 1739 he married his first wife, Anne Bayne, the daughter of a professor of Scots law at Edinburgh, Alexander Bayne of Rires (c.1684–1737), and Mary Carstairs (c1695–1759).
None of their 3 children survived childhood, and she died on 4 February 1743 giving birth to the third of them.
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King George III of England (1762) After Allan Ramsay - Antique Fine Art:
$4.96