King James I Uniting England and Scotland
1632 · oil on panel
Dimensions 63.5 × 48.3 cm
Collection: BMAG collection
Rubens was probably commissioned to provide a great propagandist decorative scheme for Inigo Jones' new building in Charles I's Palace when he visited London as a diplomat in 1629. Most, if not at all, Rubens' sketches for the ceiling were made in Antwerp where the canvases still in the Banqueting House, were also painted. Fifteen oil sketches survive of which only three are in Britain.
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King James I Uniting England and Scotland (1632) by Peter Paul Rubens, oil on panel, from the BMAG collection.
About Peter Paul Rubens
Sir Peter Paul Rubens (28 June 1577 – 30 May 1640) was a Flemish artist. He is considered the most influential artist of Flemish Baroque tradition. Rubens's highly charged compositions reference erudite aspects of classical and Christian history.
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