Current knowledge

Nicolas da Modena?

Henry VIII, little full-length

Private collection UK

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 1639

Carved in Henry VIII's time

Sale Inventory c.1649-51
Walpole Society reference (1972):