Volume 86 of the Walpole Society's annual volume will be published in 2024. The entire volume will comprise a study by Lucy Whitaker of the Royal Collection of pictures in the Restoration period.
An important inventory of the Royal Collection of pictures at Whitehall Palace and Hampton Court Palace in the 1660s.
The inventory has been transcribed and comprehensively annotated by Lucy Whitaker, until recently Senior Curator of Paintings at the Royal Collection Trust, who has also written the introduction. The inventory describes the state of the Royal Collection after the Commonwealth sales and Charles II's attempts to recover his father's collection. Lucy Whitaker's careful notes describe the movements of each of the several hundred pictures across the tumultous middle decades of the 17th century, and provide a current attribution and location (where known) for each. The work as a whole will serve as a reference guide to what was the country's most important collection of pictures during the Restoration period.
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William Skillman
The Banqueting House, Whitehall, c. 1680/5
Engraving, 484 x 705 mm
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