New documentation recording the purchase of a set of Scenes from Country Life after Jacob Jordaens, for a banquet held for Charles I and Henrietta Maria; details of the political motivation behind the commission of Mortlake tapestries by... more
New documentation recording the purchase of a set of Scenes from Country Life after Jacob Jordaens, for a banquet held for Charles I and Henrietta Maria; details of the political motivation behind the commission of Mortlake tapestries by Christian Bruce for her London house, which was a focus for pro-Stuart plotting during the interregnum; and tapestries of the History of the Sabines which relate to newly-discovered painted silk hangings made by Claude Bosquet for Louis XIV.
In its 400th anniversary year, Helen Wyld explores the short and turbulent history of the Mortlake tapestry works, arguably the greatest state-sponsored manufactory Britain has ever known.
