#tudor portraits

[boleynecklace]

some photos from my visit at the holbein at the tudor court exhibit at the queen’s gallery in buckingham palace. they were all SO stunning to see in person, i was definitely most looking forward to seeing the portrait of elizabeth that was done in 1546 as it’s one of my personal favourite paintings ever.

[earlymodernbarbie]

New Catherine of Aragon portrait on display at Hever Castle for the Catherine and Anne: Queens, Rivals, Mothers exhibit. Posted by Dr. Owen Emmerson on his Instagram account! All credit goes to him

[ambue]

Please look at these paintings I did of my boys.

[realcatalina]

Lady in purple-part 4: Doubts

I made mistake. Both 1509 and 1533 Tudor sumptuary laws specifically say that only people allowed to wear silk of the colour purple were the King, the Queen, King’s Mother, King’s children, King’s brothers and sisters, and King’s uncles and aunts.

(Aunts/Unlces likely mean only those related to him by blood. Thus by his aunts it means York Princess andArthur Plantagenet, bastard son of Edward IV.)

But what i failed to realise is that of course King’s natural son would be allowed to wear purple...and thus his wife also!

The sumpturary law doesn’t specifically mention female spouses most of the time, because everybody knew they share rank with their husband.

I had one extra woman to rule out! -Mary Howard, Dowager Duchess of Richmond!

Katherine Howard or Mary Howard?-nightmare, because cousins are likely to look alike!

However, due to King’s insistance marriage between Mary Howard and Henry FitzRoy was not consumated. And per this reasoning King didn’t grant her most of what she’d normally get as widow...it is then unlikely that she’d be allowed to wear purple after FitzRoy died. 

(Because it’d be sign she was married in every sense to Fitzroy. So unlikely Henry VIII would be ok with her wearing purple.)

Thus unless you show me period record stating she wore purple after Fitzroy died, I will presume she was not allowed.

So panic over.

Katherine Howard is still most likely to be the lady in purple, I just forgot to exclude one more person, which I should have excluded initially.

I hope you enjoyed it and I didn’t scare you too much. 

PS: There would probably be be one more woman allowed to wear purple and I didn’t mention her before-Lady Honour Grenville, Viscountess Lisle, wife of Arthur Plantagenet, illegimate son of Edward IV.

But that doesn’t fit timewise, because in 1540-1542 he was imprisoned in Tower under suspicion of treason and his wife was under house arrest in Calais at same time. She then possibly snapped and never recovered. So very unlikely she was sitting for portrait by Holbein during that time.

[tudorqueen6]

Jersey Portrait of Queen Katherine Parr: sold for £3.4 million

[jurijurijurious]

Antique fair find. £10 for the pair. A "Lady Montegle" on the left. Is the lady on the right Catherine Howard anyone?

[laliquelover-blr-blog]

Sir John More by Hans Holbein the Younger

[liberty1776]

Hans Holbein

[eternaleve]

I did a special quickie NYE video about this portrait of Catherine of Aragon and questions that have been raised about the identity of the sitter. It's a Tudor portrait mystery!

[burningvelvet]

Miniature wedding portraits of Frances and John Croker of Barton by Nicolas Hilliard, circa 1581.

[dailytudors]

Mary I, Queen of England by The Balbusso Twins

Mary I: Queen of Sorrows by Alison Weir

[lionofchaeronea]

Portrait of a Lady with a Parrot, unknown artist (English School), 1592

[earlymodernbarbie]

I’m never gonna meet what could’ve been, would’ve been, what should’ve been you…

Tudor Week Day 4: Favorite Male Tudor Family Member: Arthur Tudor, Prince of Wales

[marytudorqueenofengland]

Happy late birthday to one of my favorite historical female figures. In honor of her 508th birthday, I decided to draw my version of Master John's painting.

[sare11aa11eras]

Melisandre and Selyse at the night fires

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[tudorqueen6]

“In 1965, the National Portrait Gallery bought a portrait which was labeled “Katherine Parr.” In the late 60s however, one man came to the conclusion that it was not Parr, but “Lady Jane Grey,” the nine day queen who followed King Henry VIII’s only legitimate son, King Edward VI. Most people don’t even realize that the painting came in as “Katherine Parr.” In fact, unless you do thorough research you won’t even know that the portrait was originally at Glendon Hall, the seat of the Lane family. Glendon Hall once belonged to Sir Ralph Lane who married Maud Parr, a cousin and lady-in-waiting to Queen Katherine Parr. The portrait came to be generally accepted as Lady Jane for decades.

When did it become Queen Katherine Parr again?

More info on the portrait of Queen Katherine Parr and the re-identification: https://tudorqueen6.com/2013/03/16/queen-katherine-parr-the-coronet-brooch/amp/