![Detail from Vermeer's Music Lesson](https://cmsadmin.rct.uk/sites/default/files/lead_image_half_height/Masters%20half.jpg)
CHARLES WILD (1781-1835)
Carlton House: The Blue Velvet Room
RCIN 922184
This room displayed the individual masterpieces of George IV's Dutch collection: Rembrandt's Shipbuilder and his Wife; Albert Cuyp's Passage Boat and Jan Both's St Philip Baptising the Eunuch. These three paintings were extraordinarily expensive and cost George IV a combined total of 7,700 guineas.
RCIN 922184