This life-sized wax effigy of King Charles II was made soon after his death in February 1685. It stood over the king’s grave in Westminster Abbey for 150 years before being moved to the Jesus Chapel/Islip’s Chantry, where it was photographed [above] by Sir Benjamin Stone in 1896. Now on display in the Westminster Abbey Museum, the figure is dressed in the robes of the Order of the Garter, possibly those of the king himself.
Westminster Abbey Museum, England
