Noting its spot above a fireplace, he added, "It was very much the Queen's painting." At Whitehall Palace, it hung in the "Queen's Withdrawing Chamber," according to a 1639 royal inventory.

The palace of Whitehall, which was for so many years the ... came to the throne he also planned to restore this palace; employing Rubens to paint the ceiling, and planning to have Van Dyck paint ...

shows that the painting originally hung above a fireplace in the Queen's withdrawing chamber at Whitehall Palace. The withdrawing chamber was a relatively private room used by Henrietta Maria for ...

The painting orginally hung in the Queen’s Withdrawing Chamber at Whitehall Palace Credit: Royal Collection Trust “This complete rediscovery of an artist as important as Artemisia having been ...

The now-lost palace was the backdrop to many grand banquets, tournaments, and ceremonies. Henry VIII even married two of his ...