Anthony van Dyck, Charles I's court painter, created this portrait of Charles I, King of England, from Three Angles, commonly known as the "Triple Portrait. The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/oil_painting" class="extiw" title="en:oil painting">oil painting</a> was made on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/canvas" class="extiw" title="en:canvas">canvas</a> around <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1636" class="extiw" title="en:1636">1636</a>, and is an example of how Van Dyck tended to mask Charles I's small stature, portraying him in a more dignified manner. It was sent to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rome" class="extiw" title="en:Rome">Rome</a>, where <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sculpture" class="extiw" title="en:Sculpture">sculptor</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gian_Lorenzo_Bernini" class="extiw" title="en:Gian Lorenzo Bernini">Gian Lorenzo Bernini</a>, commissioned by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Urban_VII" class="extiw" title="en:Pope Urban VII">Pope Urban VII</a>, used it to made a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/marble" class="extiw" title="en:marble">marble</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bust_(sculpture)" class="extiw" title="en:Bust (sculpture)">bust</a> of Charles. The bust may have originally been place in the hall of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen%27s_House" class="extiw" title="en:Queen's House">Queen's House</a>, and was later lost in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palace_of_Whitehall" class="extiw" title="en:Palace of Whitehall">Whitehall Palace</a> fire of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1698" class="extiw" title="en:1698">1698</a>.
<bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Anthony_van_Dyck" class="extiw" title="w:en:Anthony van Dyck"><span title="Flemish Baroque artist (1599-1641)">Anthony van Dyck</span></a>
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Painted 1635-36 (Simon Schama, 2001, <i>A History of Britain: The British Wars 1603-1776</i>, BBC Worldwide, London, <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-563-53747-7" title="Special:BookSources/0-563-53747-7">ISBN 0-563-53747-7</a>, page 87)
<bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Royal_Collection" class="extiw" title="w:en:Royal Collection"><span title="art collection of the British royal family spread among more than thirteen royal residences and former residences">Royal Collection</span></a>
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