Proofs of the authenticity of the portrait of Prince Charles (afterwards Charles the First) painted at Madrid in 1623, by Velasquez : contained in Observations on the remarks of Sir Edmund Head, bart. and Wm. Stirling, Esq. M.A. In demy 8vo. (54 pages) price one shilling. Opinions of the press: -
Snare, John,born 1808.
[Edinburgh? : s.n.,
1849?]
A broadside containing opinions of the press in favour of John Snare, a bookseller and publisher from Reading, England, who discovered at a country house auction in 1845 an apparently lost Diego Velázquez painting, which Snare identified as a young Charles Stuart. It was alleged that the portrait was painted in 1623 during Charles's eight month visit to Spain. Art historians Sir Edmund Head and William Stirling rejected Snare's arguments.
The content of this separately printed sheet appears to have been taken from Snare's 54-page pamphlet of the same title, which also contained a 12-page appendix which included "Opinions of the press", and may have been printed in Scotland to coincide with the display of the painting (since vanished) in Edinburgh in 1849.
Caption title.
Velázquez, Diego, 1599-1660.
Stirling Maxwell, William, Sir, 1818-1878.
Head, Edmund, Sir, 1805-1868.
Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649