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26-592: Most of the paintings and all the Roman sculptures were from the Reynst collection , the most important seventeenth-century Dutch collection of paintings of the Italian sixteenth century, formed in Venice by Jan Reynst (1601–1646) and extended by his brother, Gerrit Reynst (1599–1658). The gift reflected the taste Charles shared with his father, Charles I , whose large collection, one of

52-863: A renewal of the Navigation Act and the foundation of the Royal African Company would mean more competition in the East, the West and Africa . Only a few years after the gift the two nations would be at war again in the Second Anglo-Dutch War . The 24 Italian paintings and the 12 sculptures had been part of the Reynst Collection assembled by Gerrit Reynst (also known as Gerard Reynst) and his brother Jan Reynst, who had been based in Venice for many years. Much of

78-596: A reverse movement when 36 paintings from the English Royal Collection , including at least one of those given in 1660, were taken by the Dutch King William III of England to his Dutch palace of Het Loo . His successor to the throne, Queen Anne , tried to recover these after William's death in 1702 but failed, and they mostly remain in Dutch public collections. Fourteen paintings from the 1660 gift remain in

104-494: A yacht, the Mary , a tapestry , and bedroom furniture which had belonged to Charles' sister Mary Henrietta Stuart . John Evelyn , visiting Hampton Court Palacein 1662, noted that "The Queen's bed was an embroidery of silver on crimson velvet, and cost 8000l., being a present made by the States of Holland when his Majesty returned, and had formerly been given by them to our King's sister,

130-700: Is known from a copy in the Prado and an engraving , and the painting was still in the Royal Collection during the reign of George II . The damage was apparently caused by fire, perhaps in the 1698 fire of the Palace of Whitehall , when a considerable part of the Royal Collection was lost, probably including most of the statues in the 1660 Gift, though at least one of these remains in England. The fourth non-Italian painting

156-721: The Dutch Gift , which mostly remains in the English Royal Collection , who have 14 of the paintings, with other works now in museums. Three of the antique sculptures escaped the Whitehall fire (1691) because they were installed in the garden behind the Banqueting House . Other parts of the collection ended up in Germany and with other Dutch collectors. Some antiquities found their way to the Papenbroek Collection , and through there to

182-710: The Spanish Netherlands , during the short period of the English Commonwealth when England was a republic. It was intended to strengthen family ties and diplomatic relations between England and the Republic. The gift was organized by Cornelis de Graeff and Andries de Graeff . The gift seems to have included the Klencke Atlas , based on the ideas of Mare Liberum . An end of the Anglo-Spanish War (1654–1660) ,

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234-627: The Bassano, were recorded in an inventory of 1688/9 as being in Catherine's apartments, one "said to be Raphael " of the Holy Family with a lamb, and a group attributed to Titian of "Our Saviour with his feet on a cushion, The B. Virgin St John and St Elizabeth". These may have returned with her to Portugal in 1692. Of the four non-Italian works, two were by Gerrit Dou , one of which, The Young Mother (1658),

260-500: The Gift. Previous diplomatic "Dutch Gifts" had been presented to Henry, Prince of Wales , in 1610, and to Charles I in 1636, the latter including six horses and a state carriage , four paintings, a fine watch, a chest veneered with mother-of-pearl and a precious lump of ambergris Fourteen important Italian paintings from the Dutch Gift, all previously in the Reynst Collection, remain in

286-534: The Princess of Orange, and, being bought of her again, was now presented to the King." A very tricky issue was the education and upbringing of her son, the orphan William III of Orange . Reynst collection The Reynst Collection , probably the most extensive Dutch 17th-century collection of art and artefacts, was owned by the Dutch merchants Gerrit Reynst (also known as Gerard Reynst) and Jan Reynst . The collection

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312-433: The Royal Collection, including: The Reynst collection included a Genius of Painting attributed to Guido Reni , and the older of two old copies still in the Royal Collection is first recorded at Whitehall Palace in an inventory of 1688 and described as by Reni. It is now classed as "after Reni" though no Reni original is known. Whether this or an original work, formed part of the Gift cannot be confirmed, although one or

338-719: The Royal Collection, with others now in different collections around the world. The collection was promised to Charles II at a party in Mauritshuis in May 1660, to mark his return to power in the English Restoration . After the Declaration of Breda he and his two brothers James and Henry travelled to the Hague. Charles had spent many years in exile in Paris, where his mother lived, Cologne , and

364-1241: The collection of the Dutch National Museum of Antiquities . Around 1665 to 1670, after the collection was dispersed, engravings of some of the best pieces were finally published, the project having been initiated in 1655. Simon van Hoorn Look for Simon van Hoorn on one of Misplaced Pages's sister projects : [REDACTED] Wiktionary (dictionary) [REDACTED] Wikibooks (textbooks) [REDACTED] Wikiquote (quotations) [REDACTED] Wikisource (library) [REDACTED] Wikiversity (learning resources) [REDACTED] Commons (media) [REDACTED] Wikivoyage (travel guide) [REDACTED] Wikinews (news source) [REDACTED] Wikidata (linked database) [REDACTED] Wikispecies (species directory) Misplaced Pages does not have an article with this exact name. Please search for Simon van Hoorn in Misplaced Pages to check for alternative titles or spellings. You need to log in or create an account and be autoconfirmed to create new articles. Alternatively, you can use

390-545: The collection originated from the famous Vendramin family collection there, though others had been acquired separately. After the death of Gerrit Reynst, who drowned in the canal in front of his house, his widow sold a selection of the finest works in the collection to the States of Holland in 1660 for the then considerable sum of 80,000 guilders . In 1660 this group and twelve Roman sculptures were presented to Charles II, augmented by four non-Italian works. The gift seems to have been organized by Amsterdam regents , especially

416-516: The collection; it was delivered the day before she received a visit from Marie de' Medici , whom it was doubtless intended to impress. After both the Reynst brothers had died the collection dispersed. In 1660 the first sale took place, when the best pieces (24 paintings and 12 sculptures) were bought by the Dutch Republic for the large amount of 80,000 guilders. This part of the collection would become

442-510: The core of the Reynst Collection, though Jan Reynst continued to buy art in Venice. Put on display in the family house in Amsterdam, the collection stayed largely together for several decades. A visitors list was kept, which includes famous people such as writer Joost van den Vondel and poet Constantijn Huygens . A statue, supposedly of Cleopatra , was donated to Princess Amalia of Solms-Braunfels after she had shown interest in it when visiting

468-448: The most magnificent in Europe, had mostly been sold abroad after he was executed in 1649. Charles II was not as keen a collector as his father, but appreciated art and was later able to recover a good number of the items from the pre-war collection that remained in England, as well as purchasing many further paintings, and many significant old master drawings. Some decades later, there was

494-720: The other seems likely. Paintings no longer in the Royal Collection include a Guercino , Semiramis Receiving Word of the Revolt of Babylon (1624), now in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston , which was given by Charles to Barbara Villiers , his mistress, or to their son, Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Cleveland . Jacopo Bassano 's Christ carrying the Cross is now in the National Gallery, London , having been given to Catherine of Braganza , Charles's queen, after his death. Two religious works, besides

520-500: The powerful Cornelis de Graeff and his younger brother Andries . The sculptures for the gift were selected by the pre-eminent sculptor in the Netherlands, Artus Quellinus , and the art-connoisseur Gerrit van Uylenburgh , advised on and accompanied the purchase. (Much later he was to flee from financial difficulties to England and become Surveyor of the King's Pictures to Charles, from 1676 until his death three years later.) The gift

546-766: The representative of the family in Venice and was known there as Giovanni Reynst. He was impressed by the collections of wealthy Venetians and intended to build one of his own. Because Venice was in decline after trade around the Cape of Good Hope destroyed their monopoly, many merchants there sold their art collections. Jan Reynst, rather than patiently collecting for years, bought the collection of Andrea Vendramin (1556–1629) from Vendramin's widow. Vendramin had meticulously catalogued his collection in 1627. The items bought from Vendramin's widow, some 230 antiquities , about 140 paintings and curiosities of natural history—a true cabinet of curiosities —were shipped to Amsterdam and would remain

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572-591: Was a work by Pieter Jansz Saenredam , a recent (1648) and unusually large protestant church interior of the Groote Kerk, Haarlem , which might have been intended to cement feelings of grateful nostalgia in Charles. This was apparently given to one of William III's Dutch courtiers, William van Huls, Clerk of the Robes and Wardrobe , as it appeared in his sale; it is now in the National Gallery of Scotland . The Gift included with

598-630: Was one of those works repatriated by William III and is now in the Mauritshuis in The Hague . A heavily damaged version of The Mocking of Ceres by Adam Elsheimer (c. 1605), long thought to be a copy, but now seen as the original of this rare and important work, surfaced in the English art market in the 1970s and is now in the Agnes Etherington Art Centre in Kingston, Ontario . The composition

624-547: Was only two years old when presented. The regents of the city of Leiden may have chosen The Young Mother to augment the yacht Mary as a means to encourage Charles to look after the interests of the House of Orange in the Netherlands, which had lost effective political power in 1650. At the time of the Restoration, Charles' sister Mary was in perilous political waters as the guardian of her son, Prince William III of Orange . This

650-625: Was put on display in their house at the sign of Hope on the Keizersgracht in Amsterdam . It consisted of over 200 Italian paintings and over 300 sculptures, most of them ancient Roman. There were other antiquities : ten sepulchral monuments, five votive reliefs, nine cinerary urns, "Etruscan" vases, and Christian objects, as well as engraved gems . The collection was dispersed in the 1660s and 1670s, after both brothers had died, and Gerrit's widow sold parts to various buyers. In 1625 Jan Reynst became

676-552: Was unpopular with many of the Dutch, and became a bone of contention between the Dutch political factions. In July 1660 Louis of Nassau arrived in London to find out more about Charles' preferences; his countrymen Simon van Hoorn , Michiel van Gogh from Vlissingen and the catholic Baron Joachim Ripperda van Farmsum arrived in November to negotiate the Act of Navigation and to present Charles II

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