page_title: Wilton Diptych
section_title: Provenance
hierarchical_section_title: Wilton Diptych / Provenance
caption_attribution_description: The Wilton Diptych (King Richard II), by Wenceslaus Hollar (died 1677), given to the National Portrait Gallery, London in 1931. See source website for additional information. This set of images was gathered by User:Dcoetzee from the National Portrait Gallery, London website using a special tool. All images in this batch have been confirmed as author died before 1939 according to the official death date listed by the NPG.
context_page_description: The Wilton Diptych is a small portable diptych of two hinged panels, painted on both sides, now in the National Gallery, London. It is an extremely rare survival of a late Medieval religious panel painting from England. The diptych was painted for King Richard II of England, who is depicted kneeling before the Virgin and Child in what is known as a donor portrait. He is presented to them by his patron saint, John the Baptist, and by the English saints King Edward the Confessor and King Edmund the Martyr. The painting is an outstanding example of the International Gothic style, and the nationality of the unknown artist is probably French or English.
context_section_description: The painting was drawn by Wenceslaus Hollar in 1639, with a dedication to King Charles I. It was  documented in 1649 in an inventory of the art collection of King Charles I who had been given it by Sir 
  James Palmer, a Gentleman Usher of the Privy Chamber.
  It passed to the Earls of Pembroke who kept it at Wilton House, from which it takes its name, until it was bought by the National Gallery in 1929. That it remained intact is remarkable because little religious pictorial art survived the Puritan iconoclasm that followed the execution of Charles I.
caption: Drawing of the Wilton Diptych by Wenceslaus Hollar, 1639
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