Henry VIII, little full-length
Currently (03.2023) an anonymous loan to the British Museum, where it is labelled: honestone, mid-1500s, inspired by one of Holbein's full-length portraits of Henry VIII.
George Scharf's notes in the Heinz Archive, National Portrait Gallery: "no. 1074 of the Tudor exhibition in London of 1890. Bought at Strawberry Hill by Mr Dent in 1842".
Van der Doort c.1639
WS 78, № 12
Carved in Henry VIII's time
Henry VIII, little full-length
Walpole Society reference (1960):
Measurements (Van der Doort):
0ft 5¾in x 0ft 3¾in (14.6 x 9.5cm)
Medium:
greyish soft stone
Frame:
curious little carved frame
Provenance:
when Prince of Wales
Gift / Exchange / Bought / Inherited:
bought
Location:
Room description extended:
By your majesty's especially command your pictures and rarities which you had kept at St James's in the Cabinet Room were transported and brought to Whitehall into the Privy Gallery in your Majesty's newly-erected Cabinet Room, whereof the particulars as well of the said rarities from St James's as also other Pictures medals agates or the like since by Your Majesty thereunto augmented, as by the number and bigness particularly signified doth appear as followeth
Original Manuscript page number:
Windsor MS., f. 5
Charles II inventory c1666:
Hampton Court, no 131, 38 x 38 (possibly)
Identification certainty:
Identified
Sale Inventory c.1649-51