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Late-nineteenth-century biographer Sidney Lee suggests to us that Simpson was \"more a skilled portraitist than an artist and that his portraits were not without force but lacked in instinct and penetration.\" In 1807 he began to exhibit regularly at the Royal Academy and continued to do so until his death at Carlisle House, Soho, in the year of 1847. In 1830, he painted the portrait of King D. Pedro IV (1798-1834), halflength, three-quarters, in pose on the left. The King appears in the uniform of Generalissimo and bears the band of the Four Orders (Christ, Avis, Torre and Espada and Santiago) and the respective commendation, as well as the Commendation of the Military Order of Nossa Senhora da Concei\u00e7\u00e3o de Vila Vi\u00e7osa and the insignia of Fleece of Gold. With his right arm advanced, he holds the bicorne, while his left hand rests on the hilt of the sword suspended in his belt. His face is framed by a short beard and wild hair, whose glassy look accentuates the serious character of his personality. The background, in dark brown, is tinted with red and yellow in the lower half of the screen, accentuating the lighting effects. This painting, which is part of the collection of the National Museum of Ancient Art in Lisbon (Inv. No. 361), and which can be seen at the National Coach Museum, was donated by the Queen of Sweden and Norway, D. Josefina de Leuchtenberg ((sister and heiress of Am\u00e9lia de Leuchtenberg, Empress of Brazil and widow of King D. Pedro IV of Portugal). The Art Historian Herstal, to whom we owe the most exhaustive comparative study of the various portraits of D. Pedro IV, claims that twelve canvases with this same design were found, attributed by different sources to different authors: Simpson, Gant, Steegman and Jo\u00e3o Baptista Ribeiro. Of all, the only one that belongs to the MNAA is signed by John Simpson. The same author compares it with the others and states that \u201cwhat is most similar in its technique to that of John Simpson is the painting from the National Museum of Soares dos Reis\u201d and that, although it is a susceptible idea, \u201cit cannot be categorically eliminated the possibility of being a replica, executed by the same artist\u201d. Of variable plastic quality, the similarity in the figuration of the portraits indicates a unique model of which the painting we are now bringing up to auction is another example. John Simpson, also painted, in 1834, the young Queen D. Maria II, daughter of D. Pedro IV. In this portrait, which is part of the National Coach Museum collection, we find formal and stylistic similarities with the portrait of the 1st Duchess of Palmela, D. Eug\u00e9nia Telles da Gama, also painted by Simpson and part of the Casa de Bragan\u00e7a Foundation collections (Inv. No. 2877).<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\nTIAGO FRANCO RODRIGUES<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\nBibliografia: AA.VV. - Exposi\u00e7\u00e3o D. Pedro de Alc\u00e2ntara de Bragan\u00e7a (1798-1834). Queluz: 1987. AA.VV. - Portugal e o Reino Unido - A Alian\u00e7a Revisitada. Lisboa: Fund. Calouste Gulbenkian, 1994, p. 250-251. AA.VV. \u2013 Exposi\u00e7\u00e3o A Vida Castrense e as Artes. Figueira da Foz: 1979, p. 33. Cat\u00e1 E. Soares; H. F. de Lima \u2013 Retratos de Portugueses e de Estrangeiros em Rela\u00e7\u00f5es com Portugal, Dicion\u00e1rio de Iconografia Portuguesa, 5\u00ba vol. Lisboa: Instituto para a Alta Cultura, 1960, p. 457 \u00d3. Paxeco \u2013 O Pal\u00e1cio de Queluz na Hist\u00f3ria do Brasil in Di\u00e1ro da Manh\u00e3. Lisboa: 24 de Abril de 1955, p\u00e1g. - PINTO, A. C. Pinto \u2013 Museu Nacional dos Coches - Guia do Visitante (Ilustrada). 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