If one could make alive again for other people some cobwebbed skein of old dead intrigues and breathe breath and character into dead names and stiff portraits.
That is history to me! ~George Macaulay Trevelyan
images top to bottom, from here
Anonymous. Elizabeth I, ca. 1560-65
Nicholas Hilliard (English, ca. 1547-1619), after Hans Holbein the Younger (German, 1497/98-1543) Henry VIII, from the Bosworth Jewel, ca. 1600.
Nicholas Hilliard (English, ca. 1547-1619), after Guillaume Scrots (Flemish, active 1537-1553). Edward VI, from the Bosworth Jewel, ca. 1600.
Lucas Horenbout (South Netherlandish, ca. 1490-1544). Henry Fitzroy, Duke of Richmond and Somerset, ca. 1533-34
Hans Holbein the Younger (German, 1497/98-1543). (Probably) Katherine Howard, ca. 1540.
Lucas Horenbout (South Netherlandish, ca. 1490-1544). Henry VIII, ca. 1526-27
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Beautiful! You've probably been there and seen it, but the National Portrait Gallery in London has a wonderful Tudor gallery which is actually quite moving. We walked quickly through it again on New Year's Day - hadn't seen it in years - on our way to the Thomas Lawrence exhibition and to tea afterwards.
ReplyDeleteThese are lovely - I sense that they are miniatures.
ReplyDeleteThe vibrancy of the colors is amazing...and the detail quite impressive, especially if they *are* miniatures.
ReplyDeletexo J~
Aren't they fabulous! xx
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