The Ruins of Holyrood Chapel The Ruins of Holyrood Chapel The Ruins of Holyrood Chapel is an oil on canvas painting of the Holyrood Abbey completed around 1824 by the French artist Louis Daguerre. The painting measures , and is exhibited at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool, England. The museum acquired it in 1864. Holyrood Abbey is located next to the Palace of Holyroodhouse, built by James IV of Scotland in 1501, which became the official residence of the Monarch of the United Kingdom situated in Edinburgh, Scotland. The Abbey started operation in 1128, with various rounds of destruction and reconstruction over the centuries.
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