Stella Tillyard - George IV: King in Waiting

. Detail from a portrait of Queen Charlotte with her children, by Benjamin West, 1779. George stands on the left, manly and plump at seventeen, with his brother Frederick leaning on his shoulder.. The Prince of Wales in a painting by George Stubbs, 1791. The gentleman of fashion in the blue and buff of the Whigs, riding in Hyde Park at the age of twenty-nine.. Companion miniatures of Prince George and Mrs Fitzherbert just before their first rupture, by Richard Cosway, 1793 and 1789.. Carlton House in a coloured engraving by T. Rowlandson and A. C. Pugin, 1809. The house was demolished in 1824. Later, some of its columns were reused on the front of the National Gallery.. Presenting the Trophies, Rowlandsons cheery dig at the Prince Regents love of military memorabilia. The print shows the interior of Carlton House and Captain Johnny Newsome presenting George with Marshal Jourdans baton and Joseph Bonapartes hat in 1815.. The Peterloo Massacre in a coloured engraving published by Richard Carlile, showing the violent military response to the gathering at St Peters Field, Manchester, on 16 August 1819.. George Cruikshanks engraving of the Cato Street conspirators being arrested, published March 1820. The foiling of the conspirators plot to assassinate Cabinet ministers was a put-up job by a police informer.. George IV was a talented designer and inveterate wearer of military uniforms, despite the fact that he never served in the army or navy.. The sixty-year-old king looking suspiciously youthful in Sir Thomas Lawrences portrait of 1822.. Detail from George Hayters monumental Trial of Queen Caroline, 1820. The queen sits in a armchair, while lawyers from both sides confer in the foreground and the future prime minister, Lord Grey, holds forth from the floor.. The Prince of Waless eye from a copy of the picture he sent to Maria Fitzherbert in 1785: a spooky reminder of his devotion.. Another watcher, this time looking at the prince: Rembrandt, in a self-portrait of 1642. George hung this picture in his dressing room.. An Evening Landscape with Figures and Sheepby Aelbert Cuyp, 16559. This exquisitely tranquil scene was in the collection of Sir Thomas Baring before being bought by the Prince Regent in 1814.. The exterior of the Royal Pavilion at Brighton, from John Nashs Views of the Royal Pavilion, 1826. A fantasy in neo-Mughal style, the Pavilion was likened by one critical visitor to the Kremlin in Moscow.. The Chinese Gallery in another illustration from Nashs Views. In contrast to the blinding white exterior, the interior was a riot of colour, with stained glass, statues and giant chandeliers.. George IV in Highland dress, by David Wilkie, 1830. The costume was made for the kings Scottish visit at a cost of 1,354 18s. In 2005 the jacket was discovered by experts from Sothebys at Schloss Marienburg, a castle still owned by the royal house of Hanover.

THE HOUSES OF WESSEX AND DENMARK
Athelstan	Tom Holland
Aethelred the Unready	Richard Abels
Cnut	Ryan Lavelle
Edward the Confessor	David Woodman
THE HOUSES OF NORMANDY, BLOIS AND ANJOU
William I	Marc Morris
William II	John Gillingham
Henry I	Edmund King
Stephen	Carl Watkins
Henry II	Richard Barber
Richard I	Thomas Asbridge
John	Nicholas Vincent
THE HOUSE OF PLANTAGENET
Henry III	Stephen Church
Edward I	Andy King
Edward II	Christopher Given-Wilson
Edward III	Jonathan Sumption
Richard II	Laura Ashe
THE HOUSES OF LANCASTER AND YORK
Henry IV	Catherine Nall
Henry V	Anne Curry
Henry VI	James Ross
Edward IV	A. J. Pollard
Edward V	Thomas Penn
Richard III	Rosemary Horrox
THE HOUSE OF TUDOR
Henry VII	Sean Cunningham
Henry VIII	John Guy
Edward VI	Stephen Alford
Mary I	John Edwards
Elizabeth I	Helen Castor
THE HOUSE OF STUART
James I	Thomas Cogswell
Charles I	Mark Kishlansky

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