James II Finish:none pictured surrounded by young autograph

pictured surrounded by young autograph hunters after his arrival in Birmingham

In the foreground a crowd of people have gathered to watch the disaster

are in fighting attitudes

perhaps the same church or abbey in the equivalent painting of this pair

James II Finish:none pictured surrounded by young autographJames II, King of Great Britain and Ireland from 1685, (1932). The second surviving son of King Charles I, James (1633 1701) became king on the death of his brother, Charles II. A Catholic, he lost the throne in 1688 to the Protestant William of Orange in what came to be known as the 'Glorious Revolution'. From Kings and Queens by Eleanor and Herbert Farjeon, 1932.