Portrait of the daughter of a British monarch Charles I of Princess Mary, painted in 1637 the Flemish painter Antonis van Dyck (Antoon van Dyck), returned to the collection of the Palace, Hampton Court, through 360 years of absence. Cloth court painter was saved by Stuart during the Civil War after the flight of the king in Scotland in 1647, and from 1648 to 1967 it was stored in various collections in continental Europe.

In 1967-th six-year portrait of Princess Mary appeared on the market of antiques, and it has acquired Oliver Millar (Oliver Millar), a major British expert on the Van Dyck painting. After the death of Millar in 2007, received a picture of the state to pay tax on inheritance. Cost of linen to date more than one million pounds sterling (1,4 million dollars).

In 1647 Charles I was a prisoner of Oliver Cromwell and remained under house arrest at Hampton-court. Before the escape, he wrote a letter to protect it Wally Colonel Edward (Edward Whalley) to send the portrait of Princess royalistke Lady OBIN (Aubigny). She subsequently withdrew the picture in the Netherlands.

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