[The Great Lansquenet or Standard Bearer.]
[Engraved by Wallerant Vaillant after Prince Rupert of the Rhine, after Pietro Muttoni, called della Vecchia.] [n.d., c.1660.] Mezzotint. Sheet 195 x 130mm (7¾ x 5"). Very trimmed and backed onto album paper. Crease. Copy of the 1658 mezzotint by Prince Rupert of the Rhine (1619 - 1682), the original painting is attributed to Giorgione. He first rose to prominence as a Royalist cavalry commander during the English Civil War. Rupert was the third son of the German Prince Frederick V of the Palatinate and Elizabeth, eldest daughter of King James VI and I of England and Scotland. He was a soldier as a child, fighting alongside Dutch forces against Habsburg Spain during the Eighty Years' War (1568 - 1648), and against the Holy Roman Emperor in Germany during the Thirty Years' War (1618 - 1648). Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd. CS: 5 (Early example Prince Rupert)
[Ref: 65524] £550.00