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'The Children of King Edward IV of England', 1852. Edward V (1470-1483) and his younger brother Richard, Duke of York (1473-1483), the Princes in the Tower. Edward succeeded his father, Edward IV, as King in April 1483. He was deposed in June and was succeeded by his uncle, Richard, Duke of Gloucester, who ruled as Richard III. The two young princes were subsequently imprisoned and murdered in the Tower of London. Found in the collection of the State A Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow.