Alexis Simon Belle
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Alexis Simon Belle was a French painter who specialised in portrait painting who is best known for his portraits of the French and Jacobite nobility. As a portrait artist, Belle's style followed that
Self-portrait, 1700–1725
Belle's painting of Jacobite pretender James Francis Edward Stuart in armor
Mariana Victoria of Spain, fiancée of Louis XV, later Queen of Portugal
Portrait by Alexis Simon Belle of Charles-François-Marie de Custine, Chevalier de Wiltz
James Francis Edward Stuart
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James Francis Edward Stuart, also known as the Old Pretender, was the senior House of Stuart claimant to the thrones of England, Ireland and Scotland from 1701 until his death in 1766. The only surviv
Alexis Simon Belle
…years 1698 to 1701. This was a period of peace between France and Great Britain, and Jacobites could cross the English Channel carrying portraits of James Edward Stuart (who at his father's death in 1701 became the Jacobite claimant to the British throne) and his sister Princess Louisa Maria. Troy was then James II's…
James Francis Edward as Prince of Wales
James Francis Edward c. 1703, portrait in the Royal Collection attributed to Alexis Simon Belle
James ("The Old Pretender") lands in Scotland after Sheriffmuir. An 18th-century engraving.