- Object type
- Paintings
- Date
- Production: 1911
- Artist
- Harold Speed (1872 - 1957)
- Subject(s)
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Empire and Commonwealth
Portraiture
Royalty - Associated person
- Subject: King Edward VII (1841 - 1910)
- Associated activity
- Royal Event
- Dimensions
- Height x width (canvas size): 3100 x 1680 mm
- Materials and technique
- Oil on canvas
- Production place
- England
- Themes
- Royal Connections
- Credit line
- Gift of Lieutenant Colonel Gould Hunter-Weston, 1911
- Catalogue number
- 1747
King Edward VII
King Edward VII, the son of Queen Victoria, was one of the main driving forces behind the Order of St John being granted its Royal Charter. After petitioning his mother, he continued to be involved, being the first Grand Prior and then later its Sovereign Head.