engraved portrait illustration of James Francis Stuart 1688-1766 - Prince of Wales (Chevalier de St George "The King Over the Water" "The Old Pretender" or "The Old Chevalier") Engraved by Samuel Freeman (1773-1857) From a painting by Sir Godfrey Kneller

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Steel engraved portrait illustration of James Stuart 1688-1766 - Prince of Wales (Chevalier de St George "The King Over the Water" "The Old Pretender" or "The Old Chevalier") Engraved by Samuel Freeman (1773-1857) From a painting by Sir Godfrey Kneller; in “Illustrious Englishment” Ed. G. Cunningham. Published A Fullerton Glasgow 1837The only son of James II and Mary of Modena, he was raised in exile in France after his father was deposed in 1688 in favour of the Protestant William of Orange. Known as the 'Old Pretender', he became the focus of Jacobite resistance and mounted several unsuccessful campaigns to reclaim the throne in 1706, 1708 and finally in 1715 when he landed at Peterhead in Scotland. He married the Polish Princess Maria Clementina Sobieska in 1719 and spent much of the remainder of his life in exile in Rome, where he drank himself to death.

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