Nicholas Hilliard, portrait of Charles I

Nicholas Hilliard (1547-1619)
Portrait of Charles I, when Duke of York
About 1605-8
Watercolour on vellum, stuck to pasteboard
Museum no. P.10-1947
Given by E. Peter Jones

Charles was James I's youngest son, born in 1600. He was a weak child, but when his athletic older brother Henry died unexpectedly in 1612, he became Prince of Wales.