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 where it was burned in 1608. A full-length of the Emperor, with an Irish Dog, engraved in Madrazo's Gallery of Madrid, and now at Hampton Court Palace, once hung in the so-called Bear Gallery at Whitehall.—Vasari, ed. Mil., vii. 449; C. & C., Titian, i. 366.

Charles V., Titian, Munich Gallery.

By Titian, Munich Gallery; canvas, H. 6 ft. 4 in. × 3 ft. 9 in.; signed. The Emperor, full length, in black and a fur pelisse, seated in an arm-chair in an open gallery. Painted at Augsburg in 1548; much re-painted.—C. & C., Titian, ii. 179.

CHARLES V., ENTRY OF, Hans Makart, Hamburg Gallery; canvas. Entry of Charles V. into Antwerp, in 1520, after his coronation, as described by Albrecht Dürer in his diary. The Emperor, in armour, with the collar of the Golden Fleece across his breastplate, and riding an armour-clad horse, is the central figure of a magnificent procession of nobles, knights, and prelates, preceded by a body of lansquenets, which is passing through a narrow street of picturesque houses, adorned with banners, tapestries, and flowers, and with balconies and windows filled with ladies; in the foreground, near the Emperor, several ladies, nearly nude or thinly draped, march on foot, bearing imperial symbols; at left, groups of spectators, men, women, and children, with Albrecht Dürer standing behind them. Painted in 1875-78; Universal Exposition, Paris, 1878.—Pictorial World (1880), 198; Gaz. des B. Arts (1878), xviii. 406.

CHARLES V. AT FUGGER'S, Karl Becker, National Gallery, Berlin; canvas, H. 3 ft. 11 in. × 5 ft.; signed, dated 1866. Charles V., just returned from Africa (1532), where he had overcome Barbarossa and restored to liberty many captive Christians, visited at Augsburg the banker Fugger, who entertained him by burning his bonds in a fire of cinnamon and other spices, as a thank-offering for destroying pirates and making business safer. Engraved by Zimmermann. Replica (5 ft. × 7 ft.), John Wolfe, New York.—Art Treasures of America, i. 62.

CHARLES V. AT MÜHLBERG, Titian, Madrid Museum; canvas, H. 10 ft. 11 in. × 9 ft. 1 in. The Emperor, in full armour, with spear in hand, is cantering on a brown charger towards the Elbe, which runs to the right; tall forest trees to left. Painted at Augsburg in 1548; once a masterpiece, but much damaged by fire in Palace of Pardo, Madrid, in 1608.—C. & C., Titian, ii. 178; Revue Universelle des Arts, iii. 139; Vasari, ed. Mil., vii. 440.

CHARLES XV., King of Sweden, born in Stockholm, May 3, 1826, died there, Sept. 18, 1872. Landscape painter; pupil of Boklund, and later influenced by Ed. Bergh and Alf. Wahlberg; painted Scandinavian views, in which Malmström and Winge sometimes supplied the figures. He promoted the development of art in Sweden, and founded the Stockholm Museum. Works: Wood Interior (1869); On the Brook; Ulriksdal Castle; Stone of Freya on Sognefjord; St. Sigfrid and the Smalanders; View in Hardanger.