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Shortly after this portrait was painted the sitter, the Prince of Asturias, was proclaimed King of Spain and Portugal. Here the future Philip IV wears Portuguese ceremonial dress, in white and gold. H [+]
The daughter of Henri IV of France and Marie de Médicis, Isabel de Borbón (1603-1644) was the first wife of Philip IV and the mother of Prince Baltasar Carlos and María Teresa of [+]
Philip IV´s sister, Maria, was born in El Escorial in 1606. As a result of her royal lineage, she was destined to become yet another pawn in the play of matrimonial alliances that the European courts [+]