Whatever his character failings and political misdeeds as king, King Charles I was undoubtedly a great collector and connoisseur of art.
Michael John Partington
A portrait of the cultivated, but deeply flawed, politically inept, and unlucky King Charles I, who ended his days beheaded on a scaffold.
Anthony van Dyck, Equestrian Portrait of Charles ...
Built to glorify the reign of James I, Inigo Jones’s hall later provided the backdrop for Charles I’s execution.
The Banqueting House, Whitehall Palace
A prince-regent with a private architect builds a fantasy seaside home mixing all the metaphors of empire.
A-level: John Nash, Royal Pavilion, Brighton
A prince-regent with a private architect builds a fantasy seaside home mixing all the metaphors of empire.