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Gerbier was born in the Netherlands, and while his education is unknown he clearly had training in the accomplishments required of a courtier, including the useful art of drawing. He entered the service of Prince William of Orange in 1615. Having been sent to England in an ambassadorial train in 1616, he transferred his service to the Earl (later the Duke) of Buckingham, an intimate friend of King James I, becoming his domestic architect and adviser on art. In the early 17th century in England some gentlemen became interested in miniature painting as a complement to their gentlemanly knowledge of heraldry, also painted in watercolour on vellum (fine animal skin). Heraldry enjoyed a special prominence under the early Stuart monarchs, and to the ambitious Gerbier a knowledge of miniature painting techniques must have seemed useful. He entered the service of King Charles I in 1628, just after Buckingham’s assassination, and was knighted in 1638. This youthful portrait of the future Charles I shows him after he had been made Prince of Wales. Here the new heir to the throne is wearing the blue ribbon of the Order of the Garter. This miniature is a version of another portrait, rather than having been painted from life.","physicalDescription":"Portrait, head and shoulders, to right and looking to left.  The sitter is wearing a ruff and a blue ribbon around his neck.  Features in delicate stipple of sanguine, brown and dark grey, with some blue for the shadows, white in the eyes, and gummed lake in the lips, on a pale carnation ground; hair in pale brown wash, lined with dark brown and streaks of gummed black; collar in white over grey wash; costume in grey wash, worked over with black and with lights in pale grey, and with metallic gold decoration ribbon in blue wash curtain in wet lake washes, shaded with darker colour and black and heightened with pale gouache, and with more gold decoration; a gold marginal strip; on vellum put down on a leaf from a table-book. \r\n \r\n<u>Frame:</u> Nineteenth-century silver frame, flat-backed; channelled arris with rolled edge bezel; the loop made up of wire of rectangular section flanked by two detached scrolls of flat wire.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Gerbier, Balthazar (Sir)","id":"A8422"},"association":{"text":"artist","id":"AAT25103"},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"watercolour","id":"AAT15045"},{"text":"vellum","id":"AAT11852"},{"text":"wash","id":"AAT11051"}],"techniques":[{"text":"painting","id":"AAT54216"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Watercolour and wash on vellum put down on a leaf from a table-book","categories":[{"text":"Portraits","id":"THES48906"},{"text":"Royalty","id":"THES48899"},{"text":"Paintings","id":"THES48917"},{"text":"Miniatures","id":"THES269968"}],"styles":[{"text":"Netherlandish School","id":"x30980"},{"text":"Stuart","id":"AAT21037"},{"text":"Jacobean","id":"AAT107014"}],"collectionCode":{"text":"PDP","id":"THES48595"},"images":["2016JA2792","2006AF8899","2006AP5783","2006BC8981","2006BC8992","2017JV8264"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"LVLF","id":"THES49656"},"free":"","case":"RMC","shelf":"1","box":"C"}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"miniature","id":"AAT33936"}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"England","id":"x28826"},"association":{"text":"painted","id":"x30138"},"note":"probably"}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"ca.1616","earliest":"1611-01-01","latest":"1620-12-31"},"association":{"text":"painted","id":"x30138"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"Puchased with funds from the Capt. 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Heywood Hawkins; C H T Hawkins, his sale Christie's 16 May 1804, lot 1023 (as <i>Henry Prince of Wales</i>), bt Hodgkin £31.10s.; J Pierpont Morgan, his sale, Christie's 24 June 1935, lot 94, bt Agnew for the Museum with funds from the Capt. H B Murray Bequest.","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Portrait Miniature, Portrait Miniature of Charles I, perhaps as Prince of Wales, by Balthasar Gerbier, watercolour on vellum, ca.1616.","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Murdoch, John.  <u>Seventeenth-century English Miniatures in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum</u>. 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