8 other pieces (from Henry [blank] to Elizabeth) | The Lost Collection

Edward VI (1537-1553)

Catherine of Aragon (1485-1536)

Elizabeth I (1533-1603)

Mary I (1516-1558)

Corrections may have been in Charles I's hand

Anne Boleyn (c.1501-1536)

Corrections in the Ashmolean MS. may have been in Charles I's hand

Henry VIII (1491-1547)

Elizabeth of York (1466-1503)

Henry VII (1457-1509)

Sale Inventory c.1649-51

8 other pieces (from Henry [blank] to Elizabeth)

Walpole Society reference (1972):

WS 257, №31

Location:

Several Pictures of St James's 16 February 1649/50

Appraisal:

100-0-0

Sold to:

R [reserved]; Bass

Sale date:

19/12/1651

Appears in Charles II c1666:

Whitehall, no. 394, 23 x 23

Identification certainty:

Identified

The 1st, Henry VII, red costume with brown scarf round his neck, black cap with a jewel

The 2nd, Henry VII's Queen, black dress adorned with gold and pearls in a golden habit with white ermine

The 3rd, Henry VIII's first Queen Catherine, black dress and habit adorned with gold and pearl

The 4th, Henry VIII, flat full-face, golden habit and fur gown with a little falling band, black cap with white feather, lack dress and habit adorned with gold and pearl

The 5th, Henry VIII's 2nd Queen Anne Boleyn ("Jane Seymour" [in MS. Ash. 1514]), black dress adorned with pearls

The 6th, Henry VIII's daughter, Queen Mary, black and white head dress, gold and blue woven flower tissue, sleeves lined with fur, holding 2 red roses in one and gloves in her other hand, carnation curtain behind, (very curiously done)

The 7th, Edward VI, meanly done in black cap, habit adorned with pearls and gold

The 8th, Queen Elizabeth I, black dress and habit very richly adorned with gold and pearls, laced ruff, a picture box hanging at her right breast