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‘The Rising Sun Gains Advantage’: The Iconography of George of D enmark as Royal Consort
Author(s) -
TAYLOR DAVID A. H. B.
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
journal for eighteenth‐century studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.129
H-Index - 11
eISSN - 1754-0208
pISSN - 1754-0194
DOI - 10.1111/1754-0208.12156
Subject(s) - iconography , george (robot) , queen (butterfly) , portrait , politics , art , monarchy , history , power (physics) , art history , classics , law , political science , hymenoptera , botany , physics , quantum mechanics , biology
This essay considers the iconography of George of Denmark (1653‐1708), the consort of Queen Anne. Of the few male monarchical consorts in the British Isles, George of Denmark has received the least attention from historians, and in turn his portraiture has been overlooked. Unlike Philip II or Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley (previous consorts of queens regnant in England and Scotland respectively), George was not made king, and his lack of political power appears to have been addressed in his portraiture, where he appropriated earlier male Stuart portrait types and assumed the martial visual language of the male monarch.