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The Solemnisation of the Marriage of James III and Maria Clementina Sobieska
Artist: Agostino Masucci (Italian, 1691-1758)
Date: 1735
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Collection: National Galleries Scotland, Edinburg
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The Polish princess Maria Clementina Sobieska was chosen to be the bride of Prince James Francis Edward Stuart, the 'Old Pretender', who lived in gloomy exile in Rome. Jacobites everywhere rejoiced at the birth of their son, Charles, in 1720, but Clementina had a fierce temper and soon she and her much older husband were quarrelling constantly. Within months of the birth of their second child, Henry, she left James and took refuge in a convent.
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