yeoldefashion:

A simple tie closure has been added to accommodate for the figure of the pregnant woman (thought to be Catherine Carey, Lady Knollys) in this 1562 portrait by Steven van der Meulen.

thusitakemyleaveoftheworld:

Henry’s reconciliation with Anne Boleyn, by George Cruikshank (1792-1878)

(Source: dieu-etmondroit)

monarchiesoftheworld:

Mary, Queen of Scots, and Queen Elizabeth I

This was adapted form an image in Great Men and Famous Women

whitehotel:

Ford Madox Brown, Study for ‘The execution of Mary, Queen of Scots’ (1840)

centuriespast:

Francesco Bartolozzi (Italian, 1727-1815)
after Hans Holbein the younger (German, 1497-1543)

Queen Jane Seymour, March 26, 1795

Art Institute of Chicago

amanmadeoutoftin:

Detail, Elizabeth I in coronation robes by unknown (1559)

(Source: professorowenaravenclaw)

missfolly:

Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester by an Unknown Artist, ca. 1564

Elizabeth I and the Three Goddesses, 1569.

earwigbiscuits:

Queen Elizabeth I by Marcus Gheeraerts (c.1561-1635)

Henry VII (center), with his advisers Sir Richard Empson and Sir Edmund Dudley

L-R: Richard Empson (d. 1510); Henry VII of England (1457-1509); Edmund Dudley (1462-1510)

Be sure to check out the new Google Art Project that allows you to explore many great art museums online! The portrait shown in the screencap is A Young Lady Aged 21, Possibly Helena Snakenborg, Later Marchioness of Northampton, 1569 from the Tate Collection.

titam:

Portrait of Anne Boleyn (c. 1507 - 36) 1600c., Anglo-Flemish School. Oil on copper.

This small replica of the standard portrait of Anne Boleyn would perhaps have been commissioned to hang in a library series of portraits of Kings and Queens of England, maybe originally set into panelling, or alternatively it may have been conceived as a more private object for reflection by a descendant.

earwigbiscuits:

Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry VII, and her fabulous wallpaper

English School, later 16th century

greatunexpectations:

Hans Holbein the Younger (1498-1543), Portrait of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, 1533

Black and coloured chalks, pen and ink, watercolour on pink-primed paper, 25.1 × 20.1 cm, Royal Collection, Windsor Castle. This is a drawing of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1517–47). The inscription “Thomas Earl of Surry”, added later, is wrong. Howard was a poet and art lover who enjoyed sitting for portraits: another drawing of him by Holbein survives, as well as an oil portrait. Howard was executed in 1547, convicted of inappropriately using the Royal Arms of England.

centuriespast:

Mary, Lady Guildford,1527
Hans Holbein the Younger 
Saint Louis Art Museum