When King Henry VIII's wife Anne Boleyn was executed in 1536, her Book of Hours went missing for centuries. A recent discovery reveals a string of women who secured the book for decades after her ...

The childhood home of Anne Boleyn has been restored to its former ... carpets would often be placed on tables. Paintings by Holbein were studied to learn the style in which the curtains that ...

The childhood home of Anne Boleyn has reopened after undergoing major restoration. The Boleyn Apartment at Hever Castle, in Kent, has been reimagined with 16th-century artefacts and offers an ...

The mystery in question is that of Anne Boleyn, the ill-fated second wife of King Henry VIII who was accused of and executed for adultery by her own husband. While Anne was imprisoned in the Tower of ...

But a surprisingly large number of Holbein’s drawings relate to no easel portrait. Those of Anne Boleyn and Mary Tudor, for example, are not drawn in a conventional portrait sitting, and seem ...

Anne Boleyn has been played on screen since the silent movie era. She’s been portrayed as a six-fingered boo-hiss villain, a Saturday Night Live punchline, a ghost haunting Princess Diana ...

Royal Collection Trust / His Majesty King Charles III 2023 Holbein had unrivalled access to the Royal court, and was allowed to sketch Anne Boleyn in her private chambers (Credit: Royal Collection ...

An ink sketch of the More family portrait ... years amid the dangerous intrigue of the Tudor Court. Anne Boleyn and Thomas More were not Holbein’s only sitters to face the executioner’s ...

Holbein placed the sketch onto his canvas and covered the back with charcoal ... One of the most interesting sketches on display is one that might be of Anne Boleyn. It’s a contested attribution, but ...

Thankfully Henry employed the German born Hans Holbein as the go-to artist to ... 3rd Duke of Norfolk (1473-1554), uncle to both Anne Boleyn and to Katherine Howard, Henry's fifth wife.

Royal Collection Trust A Holbein sketch of Anne Boleyn The German painter spent two periods of his life in England, observing and bringing the faces of the Tudor court to life. When he returned ...

When he returned the second time, he worked under the patronage of Anne Boleyn and Thomas Cromwell. By 1535, he was the King's Painter. William Reskimer, painted by Holbein, held various positions ...