IMAGES OF

ANGLO-SAXON ENGLAND

Portraits, Sculpture, Paintings, and Engravings
c. 1600 - c. 1920

Simon Keynes

IMAGES OF

KING ALFRED THE GREAT

 

 

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(for the time being, see index to main series)

 

• Portraits of King Alfred the Great (selected images)
  • Portrait of King Alfred at University College, Oxford (1661-2) 1
  • Engraving of 1661 portrait of King Alfred 1678 1, 2 (reduced)
  • King Alfred the Great in the Temple of British Worthies at Stowe 1, 2, 3

     

• Richard Westall, R.A. (1765-1836), 'The Boyhood of King Alfred' (1799-1800)
  'Queen Judith [sic] reciting to Alfred the Great, when a child, the songs of the bards, describing the heroic deeds of his ancestors'
  oil on canvas (128 by 102.5 cm, 50 by 40 in)
  
  Royal Academy 1800 (423), painting or watercolour; Royal Academy 1801 (569), a print in imitation of a drawing
  Sir Gregory Osborne Page-Turner, 4th Bart., of Battlesden, co. Bedford
  New Gallery, Pall Mall, 1814 (exhibition of works by Richard Westall):
  Pictures, no. 31, title as above, proprietor Sir G. P. Turner, Bart. (see below)
  Drawings, no. 234, title as above, proprietor R. P. Knight, Esq. (now in BM, Dept of Prints and Drawings)

  Christies, 7 June 1824 (bought by Rodd)
  Sotheby's, 26 October 1966, Lot 57
  Prof. Marcia Allentuck, New York
  Sotheby's, 30 November 2000, Lot 165

  • image scanned from negative
    • the same (enlarged)
  • image scanned from snapshot (Sotheby's)

     

• Replicas of the Alfred Jewel