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Portraits of King Henry VIII: Family Portraits.

These "family portraits" were not posed for, everyone together in front of the painter, as one would take a family photograph today. For the King's likeness, painters relied on the Holbein portrait in the Whitehall mural; the children all had their own residences and were rarely at court simultaneously. The painters had to either draw from memory, from preparatory sketches, existing portraits, or have each posing separately at different times. Obviously in the later paintings, many of the subjects were dead, so existing portraits were used as guides.




The Family of Henry VIII, c. 1545-1550.
The Children of Henry VIII, c.1650-1680. Copy of a lost original, c.1545-1550.
From the left: King Henry VIII, Will Somers (his fool), Edward, Mary, Elizabeth.
© The Duke of Buccleuch, Boughton House. More information.


The Family of Henry VIII, c. 1545
The Family of Henry VIII, c. 1543-1547. Unknown artist, after Holbein.
Hampton Court Palace. © The Royal Collection.


Detail from The Family of Henry VIII, c. 1545
Detail of the above.


Allegory of the Tudor Succession, c. 1572.
"Allegory of the Tudor Succession", c. 1572.
Attr. to Lucas de Heere. Sudeley Castle.


Allegory of the Tudor Succession, c. 1572.
"Allegory of the Tudor Succession: The Family of Henry VIII", c. 1590-95.
Artist Unknown. Yale Center for British Art.


King Henry VIII and King Edward VI Suppress the Pope, c. 1570. NPG.
"King Henry VIII and King Edward VI Suppress the Pope", c. 1570.
Artist Unknown. © National Portrait Gallery.
From the left: Edward Seymour, Protector Somerset next to Edward;
Thomas Seymour, Lord Sudeley; Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury;
John Russell, Earl of Bedford. Bottom: John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland.


Henry VIII, Mary I, and Henry VIII's jester, Will Somers.
Henry VIII with Queen Mary and Will Somers the Jester, 16th c.
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.


Henry VIII, Edward VI, and Queen Elizabeth I, 1597.
Henry VIII, Edward VI, and Elizabeth I, 1597.
Art Institute of Chicago.







Portraits of King Henry VIII: Early Depictions. Portraits of King Henry VIII: Whitehall Mural and Full-length Portraits Portraits of King Henry VIII: Holbein and His Legacy Portraits of King Henry VIII: Family Portraits



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The Tudors

The Parents of Henry VIII
King Henry VII
Elizabeth of York

The Six Wives of Henry VIII
Queen Catherine of Aragon
Queen Anne Boleyn
Queen Jane Seymour
Queen Anne of Cleves
Queen Catherine Howard
Queen Katherine Parr

The Children of Henry VIII
Henry Fitzroy, Duke of Richmond
King Edward VI
Queen Mary I
Queen Elizabeth I


The King's Advisors
Cardinal Thomas Wolsey
Archbishop Thomas Cranmer
Thomas Cromwell
Sir Thomas More


European Monarchs
Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scotland
James IV, King of Scotland
James V, King of Scotland
Mary of Guise, Queen of Scotland

Mary Tudor, Queen of France
Louis XII, King of France
Francis I, King of France

Ferdinand II, King of Aragon
Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor


Popes
Pope Julius II
Pope Leo X
Pope Clement VII
Pope Paul III


English Nobility
Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk
Edward Stafford, D. of Buckingham
Thomas Howard, 3rd D. of Norfolk
John Dudley, D. of Northumberland
Thomas Boleyn, Earl of Wiltshire
George Boleyn, Viscount Rochford
John Russell, Earl of Bedford
Thomas, Lord Audley
Richard de la Pole
Thomas Seymour, Lord Admiral
Edward Seymour, Protector Somerset


Clergy
Cardinal Lorenzo Campeggio
Cardinal Reginald Pole
Bishop Stephen Gardiner
Edmund Bonner, Bishop of London
Nicholas Ridley, Bishop of London
John Hooper, Bishop of Gloucester
John Aylmer, Bishop of London
John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester
Archbishop William Warham
Richard Fox, Bishop of Winchester
Edward Fox, Bishop of Hereford
William Tyndale
Hugh Latimer
William Grocyn
Thomas Linacre


Historical Events
The Battle of the Spurs, 1513
Field of the Cloth of Gold, 1520
Dissolution of Monasteries, 1536-40
Pilgrimage of Grace, 1536
The Siege of Boulogne, 1544
The Sweating Sickness


Tudor Legal System
Common Law
Court of Common Pleas
Court of King's Bench
Court of Star Chamber
Council of the North
Attainder
Oath of Supremacy
The Act of Supremacy, 1534
The Act of Succession, 1534
The Ten Articles, 1536
The Six Articles, 1539


Royal Residences
Greenwich Palace
Hatfield House
Richmond Palace
Windsor Palace


Tudor Literature
See section
16th-century Renaissance English Literature


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