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‘So wonderful and glorious a collection, that the like will never again be met with.’ This is how one awed and wistful observer described King Charles’ artworks. As an acquirer of paintings by Europe’s great masters and patron of Rubens and Van Dyck, Charles’s extravagance in amassing his collection only exacerbated the parliamentary disapproval that led to civil war and the King’s own execution. After his death, one of the Commonwealth’s first decrees was to sell off his treasures to raise money for the new regime. After the Restoration, one of Charles II’s first resolutions was to get the collection back.

Jerry Brotton tells the remarkable story of the king and his pictures: their acquisition, dispersal and eventual recovery. He reveals a world in which diplomats doubled as art dealers, and in which the king’s plumber could be temporary owner of Bassano’s The Flood. This is a vivid portrait of a tragic king and his decadent court, set against the backdrop of political conflict and civil war, which also offers a new and compelling perspective on art and the evolution of collecting in England.

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'Brotton maintains his...grip on...the grand sweep and the elaborate detail while controlling the drive of his multi-layered narrative' -- Daily Telegraph

'Colourful' -- Observer, 16 April 2006

'Jerry Brotton...reveals a seventeenth century that is surprisingly easy to identify with.' -- John McEwen, The Tablet

'Provocative...a fascinatingly detailed history' -- Sunday Times, 9 April 2006

'The best part of the book is that alluded to in the title...It... bustles with fascinating detail.' -- Derek Wilson, History Today

'There has never been such a thorough telling of the whole story...absorbing' -- Sunday Telegraph, 9 April 2006

'a superb achievement' -- Daily Telegraph

'admirable' -- Derwent May, The Times

'brilliantly researched' -- Duncan Fallowell, Daily Express

'deservedly short-listed for the Samual Johnson Prize' -- The Independent on Sunday
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2006 SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE

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  • PublisherMacmillan
  • Publication date2006
  • ISBN 10 1405041528
  • ISBN 13 9781405041522
  • BindingHardcover
  • Number of pages464
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