Studio of Rembrandt, King Uzziah.
This grand and striking portrait of a man wearing a white turban and rich black fur-lined cloak, clasping his hands and turned commandingly towards the viewer, has been the possession of the family of its current owners for at least 100 years. Untraced in recent critical literature, its early provenance is believed to go back to the French Royal Collection of the 18th century. The painting is a version of Rembrandt’s signed and dated work, bought by the 3rd Duke of Devonshire in 1742, which was recorded in Devonshire House, London in circa 1761 and has been at Chatsworth since the mid-1830s.