The Anne Boleyn Files

Claire | April 11, 2012

Good Friday 1533 (11th April) was an important day for Anne Boleyn. It was the day on which Henry VIII informed his Council that Anne was his rightful wife and Queen and she should be accorded with Royal honours. Catherine of Aragon had already been demoted to Dowager Princess of Wales after convocation had ruled
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Category: Anne Queen Consort, art, Hans Holbein, The Reformation | 10 Comments »
Tags: Anne Boleyn's coronation, George de Selve, Hans Holbein, Hans Holbein the Younger, Jean de Dinteville, The Ambassadors

Claire | February 22, 2012

As today is the anniversary of the death of miniaturist John Hoskins in 1665, I thought it was only right to share with you his beautiful miniature of Anne Boleyn. This miniature, although painted in the 17th century, is said to have been based on “an ancient original” and Anne Boleyn’s biographer, historian Eric Ives,
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Category: appearance, art, Representations of Anne Boleyn | 8 Comments »
Tags: Anne Boleyn, Anne Boleyn miniature, Anne Boleyn painting, Hans Holbein, John Hoskins, miniature, portrait, portraiture

Claire | February 10, 2012

Following on from her previous posts on Mary Boleyn’s Birth and her childhood and education, Sarah Bryson considers Mary’s personality and appearance… One of the most frustrating aspects when researching Mary Boleyn is the fact that there is not even an authenticated portrait of her. As with many people of the Tudor age there is
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Category: art, Mary Boleyn | 7 Comments »
Tags: Lucas Horenbout, Lucas Hornebolte, Mary Boleyn

Claire | January 10, 2012

Well, I forced Sir Timothy to sit through a history programme last night and he actually enjoyed it! We sat down and watched the first part of the BBC4 series “Illuminations: The Private Lives of Kings” which was entitled “Ruling by the Book”. In this first part, art historian Dr Janina Ramirez looked at the
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Category: art, Books, Monarchy, News | 7 Comments »
Tags: illuminated manuscripts, illuminations

Claire | December 15, 2011

Bendor Grosvenor, historian and art dealer, has just published an interesting article on his Art History News blog entitled Anne Boleyn regains her head in which he discusses research he and David Starkey carried out a few years ago on the Holbein drawing inscribed “Anna Bollein Queen”. He has actually reproduced the article he wrote
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Category: appearance, art, News | 29 Comments »
Tags: Anne Boleyn, Anne Boleyn drawing, Hans Holbein, Hans Holbein the Younger, portraits

Claire | November 10, 2011

I’ve just added a new range of artwork to The Anne Boleyn Files shop – Handmade Shrinky Dink portraits of the queens by artist Ellen Melchiondo. They really are amazing and here is an article about Ellen and her miniature portraits:- I really cannot remember where or when it all began! While doing last night’s
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Category: art, News | 10 Comments »
Tags: art, portraits, Shrinky Dinks

Claire | October 28, 2011

I’ve just been contacted by Roland Hui, author of “A Reassessment of Queen Anne Boleyn’s Portraiture”, which is rather a coincidence as I actually mentioned him in my webinar last night in reference to his thoughts on the Hornebolte (or Horenbout) miniature which some people believe to be Anne Boleyn and others believe to be
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Category: art, Mary Boleyn, The Boleyns, Thomas Boleyn, Tudor Characters | 4 Comments »
Tags: Lucas Horenbout, Lucas Hornebolte, Mary Boleyn, portrait, Thomas Boleyn

Claire | September 2, 2011

Today we have a guest post from Sarah Bryson, owner of the Anne Boleyn: From Queen to History blog. Thanks, Sarah! The Mystery of Mary Boleyn Mary Boleyn was the oldest daughter of Thomas Boleyn and Elizabeth Howard and sister to Anne Boleyn, the second wife of Henry VIII. There is some debate over when
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Category: art, Mary Boleyn, The Boleyns | 5 Comments »
Tags: Mary Boleyn, portraits