Renaissance England is inseparable from the reign of King Henry VIII, the notorious monarch who famously had six wives—most of whom met unfortunate ends. Initially married to Catherine of Aragon ...

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 ...

The artist was Henry VIII's painter and the most influential in Tudor England. Holbein painted defining portraits of Henry, his six wives and other figures such as Sir Thomas More. It is thought ...

It was this portrait by Hans Holbein the Younger that famously sealed the deal on the marriage between the then 24-year-old Anne and 48-year-old King Henry VIII. Anne, born Anne von der Mark ...

Holbein sketched Prince Edward for a portrait he presented to the king ... for plotting to take control of the country during Henry VIII's final illness. Unfortunately for Surrey, the king ...

The Hartford museum is hosting an event called Gallery Talk – Hans Holbein’s Portrait of Henry VIII with Matthew Hargraves and Oliver Tostmann – on May 3. Wadsworth said the Henry VIII ...

We’ve had Six the Musical; welcome to Six Lives, the exhibition on the six wives of Henry ... but even Holbein couldn’t make her anything but decent and dumpy. The fatal portrait of Anne ...

A museum in Hartford is now featuring a famous portrait of Henry VIII. The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art said Hans Holbein’s Portrait of Henry VIII (1540) is currently on display.