Prince Charles Edward Stuart, 1720 - 1788. Eldest son of Prince James Francis Edward Stuart

Antonio David worked for the Jacobite court for nearly twenty years, painting everything from multiple versions of miniatures to vast canvases like the Baptism. This is a copy, by David, of a painting that he first made for the king in 1729. It is one of his most successful and sympathetic portraits; the boy prince looks handsome, but also serious and intelligent. James was delighted and declared it ‘very like’. He asked David to continue making copies of it, and its companion portrait of Henry, for several years.

Credit: Purchased 1918