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Masterpieces from Buckingham Palace: The Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace
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JAN BOTH (UTRECHT C. 1618-52)

Landscape with St Philip Baptising the Eunuch

c.1640-49

Oil on canvas | 128.6 x 161.8 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external) | RCIN 405544

St Philip shares a ride with an Ethiopian eunuch from the court of Queen Candace; he converts him to Christianity and baptises him by the roadside. The epic landscape supports the narrative – the all-pervading light provides a metaphor for religious faith.

Acquired by George IV in 1811, when Prince Regent
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