The above link states (should it ever disappear):

Detail of a late twentieth-century portrait of Anne Boleyn, second wife of Henry VIII. The portrait, which is less than eighteen years old, was specifically made for Castle Lodge, a superb building in the heart of Ludlow, Shropshire. The building dates back to the thirteenth-century though much has been altered since. Today mostly the sixteenth and seventeenth century alterations remain. A series of portraits of prominent Tudor figures, namely Henry VIII’s wives, were made to furnish the house after it was purchased by Mr and Mrs Pearson around eighteen years ago. They were painted by a local artist who, I was told, has since gone on to be well known. I was told by the lovely couple who own the house that the lodgings were originally part of nearby Ludlow Castle though the fortifications attached to the lodgings were destroyed during the Civil War. Cannon balls fired at the lodgings by the parliamentarians can still be found in parts of the walls. The building, which is currently up for sale, has been used for several period dramas, and continues to be open to the public.

Georgina said

I am not sure if it has already been said but the Ludlow painting of Anne Boleyn was only about eighteen years old, according to a website I was on

could you provide a link please??

Anne was almost certainly still in France when she was 18, which would make a portrait of her a strange occurance.

Bella44 said

I think it was meant that the portrait itself was eighteen years old not that it was painted when Anne was eighteen.

I shall sit in a corner and learn to read..

The Portrait of Ludlow is very nice and is captured well on basis of simplicity.

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Boleyn said

Impish_Impulse said

Belle said:
I found another portrait of Anne I don’t know how accurate it is, but I thought I would share it.

For some reason I’m having problems posting it here, so I’ll just past the url.

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/exhi…..php?img=44

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It looks Victorian to me. The face doesn’t look much like her other portraits and her hair is curly! But I thought the headpiece she’s wearing was very interesting – it’s like a gable hood/French hood hybrid. Too rounded to be a ‘traditional’ gable hood, but too squared to be a ‘traditional’ French hood, either. Is it a transitional style, or did the later times just get it wrong?

I have to agree, this is a typical sort of Victorian picture. It has the look of a woman, who is scared and rather weak looking, in my opinion.

Anne.B was certainly no weakling. My favorite portrait of Anne is the John Hoskins portrait. It’s far less busy than Holbiens portrait. Hoskins portrait shows a woman of courage and nerve, which Anne most certainly had in abundance, but it also shows a fresh faced pretty young woman, who resembles her sister, and in the Hoskins portrait I can also see the spark that was uniquely Anne.

Well that portrait is just awful. I’m not overly fond of Victorian portraits of women. They always look to me as if they are begging for something or they are about to cry.