{"id":664,"date":"2021-05-12T08:31:04","date_gmt":"2021-05-12T00:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/?p=664"},"modified":"2021-05-11T15:34:08","modified_gmt":"2021-05-11T07:34:08","slug":"rarely-seen-catherine-de-medici-portrait-to-go-on-view-in-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/artist\/rarely-seen-catherine-de-medici-portrait-to-go-on-view-in-london\/","title":{"rendered":"Rarely Seen Catherine de\u2019 Medici Portrait to Go On View in London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The last surviving contemporary portrait of Catherine de\u2019 Medici, queen consort and wife of king Henry II of France, will return to its former home in London. According to a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">report<\/a>\u00a0by the\u00a0<em>Guardian<\/em>, the rarely seen painting, which dates to 1561 and shows Catherine with four of her children, will go on view at\u00a0<a id=\"auto-tag_strawberry-hill-house\" href=\"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/\" data-tag=\"strawberry-hill-house\">Strawberry Hill House<\/a>\u00a0in the British capital, where it once hung with other works in the storied collection of the 18th-century writer and politician Horace Walpole.<\/p>\n<p>The portrait, which was among works from Walpole\u2019s holdings that were dispersed in an 1842 auction, has now been placed under public ownership as part of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AtelierAuctionsg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Acceptance in Lieu scheme.<\/a>\u00a0The arrangement enables families to pay inheritance taxes, in whole or in part, by transferring \u201cimportant works of art and heritage objects\u201d to the public domain.<\/p>\n<p>The work, attributed to the workshop of French court painter Francois Clouet, will go on permanent display in Strawberry Hill House when it reopens on May 17, according to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AtelierAuctionsg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><em>Art Newspaper<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0 Located in Twickenham, the gothic revival house is was opened to the public as a museum in 2010, following a $14-million restoration effort.<\/p>\n<p>Catherine was the mother of three kings of France, including Charles IX, who assumed the throne in 1560 with his mother as regent. Charles IX is shown in the portrait with his mother\u2019s arm around him. Also depicted are his siblings the future King Henry III, Duke of Anjou; Marguerite de Valois, who would become Queen of Navarre; and Fran\u00e7ois-Hercule, Duke of Anjou and Alen\u00e7on.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source\uff1ahttps:\/\/www.artnews.com\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last surviving contemporary portrait of Catherine de\u2019 Medici, queen consort and wife of king Henry II of France, will return to its former home in London. According to a\u00a0report\u00a0by the\u00a0Guardian, the rarely seen painting, which dates to 1561 and shows Catherine with four of her children, will go on view at\u00a0Strawberry Hill House\u00a0in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":665,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,13,7,4,3],"tags":[150],"class_list":{"0":"post-664","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artist","8":"category-auction","9":"category-events","10":"category-gallery","11":"category-latest-news","12":"tag-catherine-de-medici"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Rarely Seen Catherine de\u2019 Medici Portrait to Go On View in London - Investable Art Auctioneer<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The last surviving contemporary portrait of Catherine de\u2019 Medici, queen consort and wife of king Henry II of France, will return to its former home in London.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/artist\/rarely-seen-catherine-de-medici-portrait-to-go-on-view-in-london\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Rarely Seen Catherine de\u2019 Medici Portrait to Go On View in London - 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