#anyway I like NPG 668 bc you can see the resemblance with young Elizabeth | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

tonyglowheart · 1 year

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started looking into portraits of Anne Boleyn again and okay, VERY intrigued by the overpainted woman discovered by xray in the serpent portrait of Elizabeth I. just feels like there's a very good chance that that IS a contemporary portrait of Anne!!! It's hard to make out the full features since they're partially obscured by the overpainted portrait, but she has this like knowing enigmatic look in her eye, and a(n unfashionably) wider mouth, which Anne was described as having (and often not showing up in portriature, like the notorious NPG 668 has the fashionable rosebud mouth). Ofc, it may beg the question of, if contemporary portraits of Anne were destroyed, how did this one survive into Elizabeth's queendom to be painted over... but oh, how intriguing

#misc #apropos of nothing but I don't favor the Hever Castle portrait. It's just more technically crude and doesn't... feel? right?#tho I wonder if a wider mouth on that portrait would balance it out better..#anyway I like NPG 668 bc you can see the resemblance with young Elizabeth #the Most Happy medal and the chequers ring are also intriguing bc the face is very different from other portraiture #but also are the strongest cases for being Anne (the medal in particular tho is badly damaged..) and the ring bc Elizabeth I wore it #anyway I'd be curious to see full recreations based on those. see what people get #*edit okay there's an argument that the Chequers Ring figure may have been Catherine Parr. okay could be #actually there's this (copy of a) portrait of Catherine that I think bears a resemblance to young Elizabeth #which is interesting

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