【跟着英剧练发音】The Queens PalacesE1-13

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So if Charles I was collecting, in a sense, to self-aggrandise and to make a statement about himself, whereas George III was collecting because he thought that's what a king should do, because he loved art?

Yes. He would never have commissioned an image of himself as flamboyant¹ and theatrical² as this. I think in selecting this painting to hang at Buckingham House, he would have been thinking much more in terms of the reputation of Van Dyck as a kind of the founding father of English painting and as the supreme³ exponent⁴ of elegance⁵.

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George III saw it as part of his royal duty to promote the arts, and in 1768 he founded the Royal Academy, to encourage the work of British artists.

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