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
- Replicas of the Alfred
Jewel