At the end of June I visited Tudor and Stuart Exhibitions at The Weiss and Philip Mould Galleries. Their Royal Portraiture Exhibitions were part of London Master Paintings Week, which ran from 29th June \u2013 6th July.<\/p>\n
Weiss Gallery<\/b><\/p>\n
At The Weiss Gallery were portraits of Jane Seymour, King Edward and Catherine Carey(eldest daughter of Elizabeth I\u2019s first cousin, Henry Carey.<\/p>\n
Jane Seymour
\n1536-1540s
\nPresumably commissioned by her brother Edward Seymour<\/p>\n
\u2018This rare image of Jane Seymour, Henry VIII\u2019s one true love, and mother of the future King Edward VI, descended directly within the family at the Savenake estate until 2011.<\/p>\n
Jane\u2019s premature and tragic death in October 1537 after giving birth to the male heir Henry VIII so craved for, having been Queen for a mere 17 months has meant her portraiture is very sparse \u2013 indeed she is not even represented in the National Portrait Gallery.<\/p>\n
Dendrochronology has revealed that its panel has a last tree ring from 1519, which gives a probably felling date of 1523-1539. This suggests a dating of the portrait to c. 1536-1540s, either before, or just after Jane\u2019s death in 1537.\u2019<\/i><\/p>\n
View portrait<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n King Edward VI \u2018The present version likely dated from circa 1547-1549 in the aftermath of the young King\u2019s ascension on 28th January 1547. William Scrots had taken on the mantle of the \u2018King\u2019s painter\u2019 from Holbein in 1545.<\/i>\u2019<\/p>\n View portrait<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n italics = \u00a9 Weiss Gallery<\/i><\/p>\n Philip Mould Gallery<\/b><\/p>\n At the Phillip Mould Gallery there were portraits of Henry VIII, Edward VI, Elizabeth I and Katherine Parr.<\/p>\n Royalty and Power in British Portraiture<\/b><\/p>\n \u2018This exhibition shows how important portraiture was to royalty in Britain, from the Tudors to the Victorians, and how the role of the royal image change over the centuries.<\/p>\n Our first exhibits demonstrate how the Tudors used portraiture to reinforce power.\u2019<\/i><\/p>\n Henry VIII \u2018This powerful image derives from the Whitehall mural, sadly now destroyed. This work is by an unknown artist working in the 16th century.’<\/i><\/p>\n View portrait<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n Edward VI \u2018This portrait of Edward VI is the last likeness painted during his reign. It was painted in the workshop of Guillim Scrots, Holbein\u2019s successor as the Tudor court\u2019s artist. Only 3 examples of this portrait type are known, the others being in the Louvre, Paris and the Los Angeles Museum of Art.\u2019<\/i><\/p>\n View portrait<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n Katherine Parr This portrait of Henry VIII\u2019s last Queen also featured in the \u2018Henry\u2019s Women\u2019 exhibition at Hampton Court Palace in 2009.<\/p>\n View portrait<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n Elizabeth I \u2018This portrait is the earliest likeness of Elizabeth as Queen, and was painted at the time of her accession to the throne in 1558. Here, Elizabeth has consciously portrayed herself as a devout woman of learning, with sombre dress, a prominent prayer book, and only one of the most prominent Tudor jewels to mark her status as Queen. <\/p>\n This picture is painted on top of another, slightly earlier portrait of Elizabeth in which she is presented face onto the viewer, in the confrontational manner of her father\u2019s portraits by Hans Holbein.\u2019<\/i><\/p>\n View portrait<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n Italics = \u00a9 Philip Mould Gallery<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" At the end of June I visited Tudor and Stuart Exhibitions at The Weiss and Philip Mould Galleries. Their Royal Portraiture Exhibitions were part of London Master Paintings Week, which ran from 29th June \u2013 6th July. Weiss Gallery At … Continue reading
\nStudio of William Scrots<\/p>\n
\nEnglish School
\n16th century<\/p>\n
\nWorkshop of Guillim Scrots
\n1537-1553<\/p>\n
\nEnglish School
\n16th century<\/p>\n
\nEnglish School
\nc. 1558<\/p>\n