My thoughts on this painting
I found it on twitter account called Tudor Extra, and they say it has been recently discovered by Dr Emma Cahill Marrón(on twitter as EmmaLCahill) in London.(link is at end of post)
Honestly in closeup it looks in really poor state.
On left are obviously Henry's parents and correctly identified so.
But i am not so sure about rest of figures being correctly identified. Or rather I am sure they aren't!
Yes, the figures lined in red are Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon.
But the orange I lined in orange is supposed to be Margaret Tudor. Henry VIII's sister. Fashion-wise it's possible.
Catherine's gable hood has both veils down, frontlets up. So at earliest it could be somewhere in 2nd half of 1510s, at latest late 1520s. The lack of ends of paste would point to c.1520(however if this was a copy...painters tend to not include them, or not give them justice...) So I am not 100% trusting it.
Margaret left England in 1517(read up on her life, if you want to know more), so in theory she could have been included here. But why is she by Catherine's side? Or rather behind that. Odd isn't it?
Such possition would much better fit Mary I. The sizes can be deceiving here...because in reality Catherine is supposed to be way smaller than Henry...
Hence this figure doesn't necessarily have to be a child(Mary I), but could be. And Mary was wearing same cap in Vyne chapel(where is commonly mistaken for her mother.)
(If there was Margaret, why wouldn't there also be Mary Rose? (Henry's other sister). ...Wouldn't that be even more odd than his daughter being included.)
But...I am really buffled by two figures entirely on right side.
Allegedly on left is Eleanor of Austria and on right her husband Manuel I of Portugal, whom she married in 1518:
...Nobody thinks it weird? ...Just me?
Well, in my opinion. They are misidentified. Both of them.
The man wears order of golden fleece-but that wasn't limited to just Habsburgs, plenty of foreign royalty were honourary members. Including Manuel of Portugal and Ferdinand II of Aragon.
One would be normally considering if the entire portrait is not done to commemorate Charles V visit to England...with figure beside him being widowed Germaine of Foix(who was there!).
But why would Henry's parents be included in such portrait?...Makes no sense!
Unless...we're looking at dynastic portrait!!!
...Where Henry's parents are on left, Henry, Catherine and their daughter Mary in middle, and Catherine's parents on right!
This could certainly be Ferdinand:
Ferdinand died in 1516, but Henry's parents were long dead too...
But...what about the woman? You cannot tell firmly the shape of gown and jewelry(mind could easily play tricks upon you.)
But why would Isabella wear french hood?
...And i considered that perhaps somebody confused portrait of Germaine of Foix or even real Eleanor and Joanna(netherlandish type of frenhc hood) with Isabella...
But then I noticed shape within the french hood's veil...
And it looks suspiciously like cofia de tranzado... the cap and 'braid', just where they are supposed to be.The headwear is overpainted!
Hence it could be based upon some portrait of Queen Isabella!
Unfortunately this is just card/print from Ancaster Collection, Grimstorpe castle labelled slightly wrong as family of Henry VII(instead of Henry VIII):
I hope we can all agree. It deserves way more love and attention.
This might be the first Tudor dynastic portrait!
Equivalent of Whitehall Mural or The family portrait from 1542/3.
...And if there is black and white card of it...is it drawing, engraving, printm or photograph? ...It could be out there...
PS: In it...Elizabeth of York is taller than Henry VII. Not that I'd trust the proportions entirely...but it'd be funny if true.
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