Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Attributed to Paul van Somer, ca. 1576–1621, Flemish, active in Britain (from 1616)
Title:
James I of England (James VI of Scotland)
Date:
ca. 1618
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
86 1/4 × 54 3/4 inches (219.1 × 139.1 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1982.18
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
shoes (footwear) | brocade | orb | Tudor | royalty | beard | embroidery | seal | man | ribbon | king (person) | stockings | portrait | curtains | doublet | sword | breeches (trousers) | ruff | crown (costume component) | moustache | lace
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Reign and Rebellion (Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation, 2022-11-05 - 2023-09-05)

Crown Pictorial - Art and the British Monarchy (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-12-05 - 1991-02-17)
Publications:
Acquisitions : The First Decade 1977-1986, Yale Center for British Art , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1986, p. 9, N590.2 A7 OVERSIZE (YCBA)

Linda Colley, Crown Pictorial : Art and the British Monarchy : Exhibition Labels, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1990, . 6-7, no. 18, N8219 K5 C761 1990 (YCBA)

Linda Colley, Crown Pictorial : Art and the British Monarchy, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1990, p. 27, no. 18, no. 18, N8219 K5 C76 1990 (YCBA)

Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 210-211, N590.2 A83 (YCBA)

Duncan Robinson, Acquisitions : The First Decade 1977 - 1986, , Burlington Magazine, vol. 128, October 1986, p. 9, N1 B87 128:3 OVERSIZE (YCBA)

Dennis P. Weller, Seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish paintings, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, N.C., 2009, p. 339, fig. 70/71A, ND636 W438 2009 + OVERSIZE (HAAS)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:1223