Overall each: 58.5cm (23.1in) x 46cm (18.1in)
Etching. Eight portraits of George III and his sons engraved and published by William Skelton (1763-1848) after Sir William Beechey (1753-1839). The plates: 50.5cm x 39cm; sheets 53cm x 40cm. Contained in period glazed Hogarth frames.
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His Most Excellent Majesty George III, after Beechey, engraved and published by Skelton, 1810.
His Most Excellent Majesty George IV, after Thomas Phillips (1770-1845) engraved and published by Skelton, 1819.
His Royal Highness Frederick, Duke of York, after Beechey, engraved and published by Skelton 1812.
His Royal Highness Prince William Henry, Duke of Clarence & St Andrews, drawn, engraved published by Skelton, 1821.
His Royal Highness Prince Edward, Duke of Kent & Strathearn, after Beechey, engraved and published by Skelton, 1815.
Field Marshal His Royal Highness Prince Ernest Augustus, Duke of Cumberland & Tiviotdale, after William Owen (1769-1825), engraved published by Skelton, 1815.
His Royal Highness Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex, after Beechey, engraved and published by Skelton, 1806.
His Royal Highness Prince Adolphus Frederick, Duke of Cambridge, after Beechey, engraved and published by Skelton, 1808.
William Skelton entered the Royal Academy Schools in 1781 and was a pupil, first of James Basire, and later of William Sharp. He set up shop in Pimlico and was employed on the illustrations of many of the most sumptuous literary and learned publications of the day, notably John and Josiah Boydell's Shakespeare (1803), Thomas Macklin's Bible (1800-16) and Bowyer's edition of David Hume's The History of England. Skelton is best known for his fine portraits of famous contemporaries, chiefly from pictures by Sir William Beechey, the majority of which he published himself between 1790 and 1820.