# Portrait of Charles II [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [CARREÑO DE MIRANDA, Juan]() - Date: 1651-1700 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 210 x 111 cm ## Commentary Charles II, King of Spain \(1661-1700\) is portrayed here at the age of about 14. Carreño was appointed 'Pintor de Cámara' in 1671 and for the remainder of the decade painted several portraits of the young King in this precise pose, documenting his growing stature through adolescence. Until 1675 Charles is always depicted, as here, in the Salón de los Espejos in the Alcázar, where Carreño had worked in 1659 under the supervision of Velázquez; his left hand resting his hat on the table-top and his right hand loosely holding a letter. ## Related artworks - [Assumption of the Virgin]() - [Charles II as Grandmaster of the Golden Fleece]() - [Duke of Pastrana]() - [Eugenia Martinez Valleji, called La Monstrua]() - [King Charles II of Spain]() - [La Monstrua Desnuda \(Eugenia Martinez Vallejo Unclothed\)]() - [Mass of St John of Matha]() - [Mass of St John of Matha]() - [Portrait of Charles II \(detail\)]() - [Portrait of Don Juan José de Austria \(?\)]() - [Portrait of Queen Mariana de Austria]() - [Queen Mariana de Austria as a Widow]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()