Trinity Altarpiece

The Trinity Altarpiece, also known as the Trinity Altar Panels, is a set of four paintings in oil on wood thought to have been commissioned in the late fifteenth century for the Trinity College Kirk in Edinburgh, Scotland. The panels are now part of the British Royal Collection and are loaned to the Scottish National Gallery.

They are now universally attributed to the Netherlandish artist Hugo van der Goes, with studio assistance, and probably represent the inner and outer panels of the wings of a triptych. The presumed central panel is lost; probably it contained a Virgin and Child. Van der Goes died in 1482, and the prince presumed to be the future James IV of Scotland was born in 1473; he appears to be at least five years old. A second son born in 1478 is not shown. As with the royal portraits in the Hours of James IV of Scotland a few years later, it is presumed that drawings were m…

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