Claire | August 1, 2023
Today’s #portraittuesday treat is a drawing by the Henrician court artist Hans Holbein the Younger, an artist who was at Henry VIII’s court while Anne Boleyn was queen.
The drawing is housed in the Royal Collection and although the sitter’s identity is not firm, it was labelled “Anna Bollein Queen” by Sir John Cheke, one of Edward VI’s secretaries and secretary of state to Lady Jane Grey. Although, as others have pointed out, some of Cheke’s identifications have been incorrect, Cheke did know Anne Boleyn so, as art historian Bendor Grosvenor points out, “It seems inconceivable that he would get Anne’s identification wrong”.
Category: Anne Boleyn Art, Anne Boleyn portraits, Representations of Anne Boleyn |
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Claire | April 11, 2013
On 11th April 1533, Good Friday, King Henry VIII informed his Royal Council that Anne Boleyn was now his wife and that they must accord her with royal honours. Two days earlier, Henry had sent a delegation of his councillors, led by the Duke of Norfolk, to Catherine of Aragon to inform her that her […]
Category: Anne Boleyn Art, Anne Queen Consort, Hans Holbein |
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Tags: Anne Boleyn becomes Queen, Hans Holbein, Hans Holbein the Younger, The Ambassadors
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 […]
Category: Anne Boleyn Art, Anne Queen Consort, Hans Holbein, The Reformation |
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Tags: Anne Boleyn's coronation, George de Selve, Hans Holbein, Hans Holbein the Younger, Jean de Dinteville, The Ambassadors
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 […]
Category: Anne Boleyn Appearance, Anne Boleyn Art, News |
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Tags: Anne Boleyn, Anne Boleyn drawing, Hans Holbein, Hans Holbein the Younger, portraits
Claire | May 31, 2011
This day in history, 31st May 1533, saw the lavish and triumphant coronation procession of Anne Boleyn from the Royal Palace of the Tower of London to Westminster Hall in readiness for her coronation on the 1st June 1533. Anne and Henry had waited years for this moment so it is little wonder that the […]
Category: Anne Boleyn Places, Anne Queen Consort, Elizabeth I, Hans Holbein, Tudor Events |
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Tags: Anne Boleyn Queen Consort, Anne Boleyn's coronation, coronation, coronation procession, Elizabeth I, Hans Holbein, Hans Holbein the Younger
Claire | December 22, 2010
Giving gifts at Christmas is a relatively modern phenomenon, even here in Spain the gifts come from the Three Kings on the eve of Epiphany rather than from Santa on Christmas Eve. In Tudor times, gifts were given at New Year and I thought you might be interested in the following:- January 1533 (the same […]
Category: Anne Boleyn Art, Anne Queen Consort, Hans Holbein, Henry VIII |
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Tags: Anne Boleyn, Hans Holbein the Younger, Henry VIII, Marriage, New Year gifts
Claire | September 9, 2010
As a result of my previous two articles on Hans Holbein the Younger’s “The Ambassadors”, my good friend Robert Parry, author of the wonderful “Virgin and the Crab” and a bit of expert on astrology, has kindly looked at the astrological line-up for Good Friday 1533, the 11th April (Old Style), the date which is […]
Category: Anne Boleyn Art, Anne Boleyn General, Anne Queen Consort, Hans Holbein, The Reformation, Tudor Events |
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Tags: Hans Holbein the Younger, The Ambassadors, the Break with Rome, The Reformation
Claire | September 8, 2010
As I said in my previous article, “Holbein’s The Ambassadors: A Renaissance Puzzle? – Part One: Context”, The Ambassadors is a Renaissance puzzle, a code in a painting, a message to be fathomed. It may look like a portrait of two men, two ambassadors, but in “The Ambassador’s Secret”1, John North writes of how the […]
Category: Anne Boleyn Art, Anne Boleyn General, Hans Holbein, The Reformation, Tudor Characters |
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Tags: Georges de Selve, Hans Holbein the Younger, Jean Dinteville, Renaissance Art, The Ambassadors
