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VI.—Isaac Fuller's Paintings of Charles II's Escape after the Battle of Worcester
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 April 2011
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Charles II's hiding in the Royal Oak of Boscobel has taken its place among those picturesque memorabilia—such as Alfred and the cakes, Canute and the waves, Bruce and the spider, Drake and his bowls, and Raleigh and his cloak—which have enlivened our history books both before and after 1066-and-all-that. And of all these episodes it is perhaps the story of the Royal Oak which rings the truest: two versions of it, England's Triumph by an anonymous author, and Thomas Blount's Boscobel, were both published in the year of the Restoration, 1660; and the chief actor himself was always ready to give his own account of the adventure, and on two occasions, on 3rd and 5th October 1680, entertained Samuel Pepys with it.
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page 199 note 1 Besides the above early authorities, the following have also been consulted: Fea, Allan, The Flight of the King, 2nd edn. 1908Google Scholar; and Kingston, H. P., The Wanderings of Charles II, 1933Google Scholar.
page 200 note 1 Original document in the P.R.O. kindly communicated by Mr. L. C. Hector. Cf. also Redington, Joseph, Calendar of Treasury Papers, 1556–1696 (1868), pp. 6–7Google Scholar.
page 205 note 1 Cf. Oliver Millar, The Tudor, Stuart and Early Georgian Pictures in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen, p. 137, no. 317, pl. 119.
page 205 note 2 Cf. Croft-Murray, Edward, Decorative Painting in England, 1537–1837, i (1962), pp. 288Google Scholar 9, Pl. 88.
page 208 note 1 Kerry Dowries, ‘Fuller's “Last Judgement”’ in The Burlington Magazine, cii, 1960, pp. 451–2, figs. 43–6.
page 209 note 1 Kindly communicated by Mr. Frank Simpson. No printed copy of the catalogue is known to exist; but its text appears in a manuscript volume (once in the possession of the collectors Richard Houlditch I & II and later of Michael Bryan, and now in the Library of the Victoria and Albert Museum (L. 867)), containing transcripts of London picture-sale catalogues covering a period from 1711 to 1759.
The reference to Fuller's paintings occurs on f. 449 of this, Another picture also connected with Charles II, his ‘Entryatt the Restoration’ by Dirk Stoep (b. c. 1618: d. after 1681) is listed on the 1st Day as Lot 65, and is noted on f. 449. It is now in the collection of the Duke of St. Albans.
page 209 note 2 George Vertue, Notebook, 1742 etc. (B.M., Add. MS. 23 073), pub. in Walpole Soc., xxvi (1938), pp. 27–9Google Scholar.
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page 210 note 2 Cf. ibid. Though presumably all the pictures in the sale came from Bedgebury, it is clear that by no means all of them could have belonged to Lady Falkland. Works of artists of a period long after hers—among them Giacomo Amiconi, Pierre Angélis, Antonio Bellucci, Marco Ricci, and John Vanderbank—appear in the catalogue and suggest that her descendants added to the collection. Her will (P.C.C., Browning 203, kindly communicated by Miss A. Stanley) makes no reference to any pictures.
page 210 note 3 Cf. John Evelyn, Diary, ed. E. S. de Beer, 1955, iii, p. 623, n. 4; Peter Le Neve, Pedigrees of the Knights, ed. G. W. Marshall, in Harleian Soc., viii, p. 237; and Edward Hasted, The History … of … Kent, iii (1790), p. 37. His will (P.C.C., Box 42) makes no reference to any pictures,
page 211 note 1 Cf. D.N.B. xxviii, 254.
page 211 note 2 The Gentleman's Magazine, lxxix, 1809, pp. 291–2Google Scholar. This account is repeated in Chalmers, Alexander, General Biographical Dictionary (1812–17), xv, p. 167Google Scholar, and finally in Horace Walpole, Anecdotes of Painting in England, ed. R. N. Wornum (1862), ii, p. 431.
page 212 note 1 Cf. Gilbert, iii, pp. 131–5. Other additions and alterations were carried out between 1787 and 1794.
page 212 note 2 Cf. G.E.C., , The Complete Peerage, i (1910), p. 229Google Scholar, and xi (1949), pp. 63–5.
page 212 note 3 Fea, Allan, The Flight of the King, 2nd edn., 1908, pp. 317–18Google Scholar and 325.