Attributed to Robert Peake the Elder

By descent in the Hesketh family, Heslington Hall, Yorkshire, to Anne, daughter and co-heir of Thomas Hesketh of Heslington (d. 1708), who married in 1692 Lieutenant Colonel James Yarburgh (d. 1728) of Snaith Hall, Yorkshire;
Thence by descent to Mary Elizabeth Yarburgh (d. 1884) eldest daughter and co-heir of George John Yarburgh (1811-1875), who married in 1862 George William Bateson, later Bateson de Yarburgh, 2nd Baron Deramore of Belvoir (1823-1893);
Thence by descent in the Deramore family to the present owner.

On loan to Ampleforth Abbey, York, circa 1969;
London, Tate Gallery, The Elizabethan Image: Painting in England 1540-1620, 28 November - 8 February 1970, no. 112.

J.P. Neale, Views of The Seats of Noblemen and Gentlemen, London 1822, vol. V, under "Heslington Hall" as 'Henry Prince of Wales';
Sir R. Strong, The English Icon: Elizabethan and Jacobean Portraiture, London 1969, no. 231,  p. 251;
Sir R. Strong, The Elizabethan Image: Painting in England 1540-1620, exhibition catalogue, London 1969, no. 112, reproduced p. 57.

The catalogue illustration is representative. The canvas has been relined and as a result the paint is a little thin in places, particularly the darker pigments in the peripheral areas such as the background, otherwise the paint surface appears to be in good overall condition with no apparent damage or loss of paint except for some minor abrasion around the canvas edges which appears to have been caused by an ill-fitting frame. There is also evidence of an uneven varnish which is blanching in places and localised areas of surface dirt most noticeable along the lower edge of the canvas. Examination under ultraviolet light confirms the presence of the varnish and reveals several campaigns of extensive retouching most obviously apparent in the lighter pigments and some more recent localized retouching centre left however the discoloured varnish makes further inspection difficult. Offered black and gold painted wooden frame in good overall condition.
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This portrait was painted when Charles was eleven years old, soon after he received the Garter on 13^th May 1611. Another version of this portrait of near identical dimensions, previously at Wytham Abbey, Oxfordshire and now in an English private collection, was exhibited at the 2006 Weiss Gallery Exhibition ‘A Fashionable Likeness: Early Portraiture 1550-1710’.