Artwork at Marble Hill Gallery

Henrietta-Maria and dwarf, Sir Jeffrey Hudson J900214

MARBLE HILL HOUSE, Richmond-upon-Thames, Greater London. "Queen Henrietta Maria and the Dwarf Sir Jeffrey Hudson" after Sir Anthony VAN DYCK (1599-1641). Henrietta-Maria (1609-69) was daughter of Henri IV of France and wife of Charles I of England. Sir Jeffrey Hudson (1619-82) is recorded to have been only 18 or 19 inches (46cm) tall at the age of 30, unusually with no hint of disproportion or distorted physiognomy. He is later reported to have doubled his height. In 1626 he was served in a pie to the royal couple and soon afterwards entered the service of the queen. After a life of adventures, including military service, a duel, exile, slavery, and imprisonment as a Catholic, his death is unrecorded

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Haytley - Elizabeth Wandesford J920265

MARBLE HILL HOUSE, Richmond-Upon-Thames. "Miss Elizabeth Wandesford" circa 1753 by Edward HAYTLEY (fl 1740-61). Oil on Canvas. Miss Wandesford (1728-54) was the second daughter of Viscount Castlecomer of Kirtlington, Yorkshire. Pictured here beside an Egyptian obelisk

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Georgian, Painting

Leslie - Jeanie Deans Pleading with Queen Caroline J940116

MARBLE HILL HOUSE, Twickenham, Richmond, Middlesex. "Jeanie Deans Pleading with Queen Caroline... in the Presence of the Duke of Argyll and Lady Suffolk" by Charles Robert LESLIE (1794-1859). The painting depicts a scene from Sir Walter Scott's 1818 novel The Heart of Midlothian

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Costume, Fashion, Painting