Two favourite stallions of King Charles XI (1655–1697).
The fact that a king commissioned portraits of his horses shows how proud he is of them and how highly he values them. ‘Brilliant’ (left) and ‘Little Englishman’ (right) and are not shown as typical horses in the paddock or the riding school, but against the backdrop of heroic landscapes and architecture.

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