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This 1540 miniature by Hans Holbein may depict the Tudor king's fourth wife, Anne of Cleves, not his fifth wife, Catherine Howard. Royal Collection Trust / © Her ...
Literary scholar Vanessa Braganza suggests that Catherine commissioned the pendant ... a volume of jewelry designs by Tudor court painter Hans Holbein. According to Braganza, the cipher contains ...
There’s a new old painter in town: Hans Holbein the Younger ... Clement VII’s refusal to annul his first marriage, to Catherine of Aragon. (It was never a smart move to exasperate Henry.) ...
It was featured by Henry VIII’s court painter Hans Holbein in his portrait ... book that was also owned by Henry VIII’s wives Catherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn. The Frick Collection ...
Thankfully Henry employed the German born Hans ... Holbein subject who was a victim of Henry's wrath was John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, and a supporter of the king's first wife Katherine of Aragon.
Hans Holbein the Younger’s religious beliefs ... broke from the Catholic church to annul his first marriage to Catherine of Aragon after she failed to give him a son. It is possible that Holbein ...
Hans Holbein the Younger acted as a matchmaker to Henry VIII, tasked with painting the portraits of potential wives across Europe in a bid to safeguard the future of the throne. As two new ...
Portrait of Anne Boleyn, second wife of King Henry VIII,' after a painting by Hans Holbein and engraved ... annulled his first marriage (to Catherine of Aragon) and was in the process of breaking ...
Image: Thomas Cromwell as the Earl of Essex, painted by Hans Holbein the Younger (Getty ... for failing to secure him a divorce from Catherine of Aragon. He died in 1530 on his way to stand ...
The National Portrait Gallery reopened its doors on 22 June; a portrait of King Charles commissioned for Tatler’s July issue was unveiled at Sotheby’s; and now a new Buckingham Palace exhibition ...
Hans Holbein the Younger acted as a matchmaker to Henry VIII, tasked with painting the portraits of potential wives across Europe in a bid to safeguard the future of the throne. As two new ...