James, Duke of Cambridge (1663-67)
In this formal portrait, the young James Stuart, Duke of Cambridge (1663-67), meets our gaze from a moment frozen in the seventeenth century. The artist, John Michael Wright, captures the boy at a tender age of just three or four years. He is the second son of the Duke of York and Anne Hyde, a child of high station whose life remains poignantly brief. We see him not as a…










