Legendary kings of Scotland Scottish history. When James VI entered Edinburgh in 1579 the pageantry included a public posting of the genealogy of the Scottish kings; and when his son Charles I visited in 1633, portraits of 107 kings were displayed, some of which (by George Jamesone) survive. Another series of 110 imagined portraits of the monarchs from the list was painted for Charles II by Jacob de Wet II, and hung in Holyrood Palace. The de Wet portrait collection later became a noted sight for tourists, for example as written about by John Macky, "A Journey through Scotland". While "Rerum Scoticarum Historia" was
Portraits of Philip IV by Velazquez Charles, as well as Gaspar de Guzmán y Pimentel along with the infantes Carlos and Fernando de Austria, Philip's younger brothers. However, it is the quantity and quality of his paintings of the king himself that make them in particular the most representative of his works. The main version of this very late portrait is in the National Gallery, London. Portraits of Philip IV by Velazquez Philip IV of Spain (1605–1665) was the subject of several paintings of the Baroque period, including those of Peter Paul Rubens, but the most notable painter to portray him was the Seville-born Diego Velázquez