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Charles I Insulted by Cromwell's Soldiers is an oil painting by the French artist Paul Delaroche, depicting Charles I of England taunted by the victorious soldiers of Oliver Cromwell after the Second English Civil War, prior to his execution in 1649. Completed in 1836, it is thought to be one of Delaroche's greatest masterpieces.
The painting depicts how Oliver Cromwell, during the English Civil War, opens the coffin of Charles I in Whitehall to examine his decapitated body. This legend – for it is not a historical event – was brought to life by historian François Guizot , who even had Cromwell lift the severed head. [ 2 ]
Both works are based on a fictional account by François-René de Chateaubriand of Oliver Cromwell opening Charles I's coffin after the latter's execution. [1] Delaroche's work was less a portrayal of an event than an oblique comment on the French Revolution and Louis XVI's execution, [2] with Cromwell standing in for Napoleon. [3]
The image of Charles's execution was central to the cult of St. Charles the Martyr, a major theme in English royalism of this period. Shortly after Charles's death, relics of Charles's execution were reported to perform miracles—with handkerchiefs of Charles's blood supposedly curing the King's Evil among peasants. [90]
A liuely Representation of the manner how his late Majesty was beheaded uppon the Scaffold Ian 30: 1648; A representation of the execution of the King's Judges. In the top pane, Charles I is shown awaiting his execution. In the bottom pane, one regicide is hanged and another quartered, while the latter's head is shown to the crowd.
Charles I (19 November 1600 – 30 January 1649) [a] was King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 27 March 1625 until his execution in 1649.. Charles was born into the House of Stuart as the second son of King James VI of Scotland, but after his father inherited the English throne in 1603, he moved to England, where he spent much of the rest of his life.
Charles Landseer, a member of the Royal Academy, was the elder brother of the better-known Edwin Landseer. [4] Today the painting is in the collection of the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool, having been purchased in 1885. [5] In 1851, Landseer produced a painting of Oliver Cromwell at the Battle of Naseby, now in the Alte Nationalgalerie in Berlin.
Charles I, head of the House of Stuart, was King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 27 March 1625 until his death on 30 January 1649. He believed in a sacramental version of the Church of England, called High Anglicanism, with a theology based upon Arminianism, a belief shared by his main political advisor, Archbishop William Laud.