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Title: Historical portraits; some notes on the painted portraits of celebrated characters of England, Scotland and Ireland
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Wheatley, Henry B. (Henry Benjamin), 1838-1917
Subjects: Portrait painters
Publisher: London, G. Bell
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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nderful modelling of all the details, the brownish-red local tone of the flesh, the gray of the shadows,and the very light general effe6l show this pictureto be a transition from the second to the thirdmanner of Holbein, and that it may have beenpainted about 1530. This picture was lent to the Tudor Exhibitionby Lord Warwick. In 1861 Sir George Scharf gave in the Archaeo-logia a note of such portraits of Henry VIII. asare deserving of special notice, from bearing indi-cations of the dates at which they were executed.They are thirteen in number, and may be shortlyindicated as follows : 1. The first portrait mentioned by Scharf, although not perhaps the earliest, is a kneelingfigure of a monarch in the great east window ofSt. Margarets Church, Westminster, to which thenames of Henry VII. and Prince Arthur havebeen assigned. I feel, however, satisfied that itreally represents Henry VIII. as a young man,and that the kneeling queen on the opposite sideof the window is Catherine of Arragon.
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HENRY VIII., BY LUKE HORNEBOLT. SOVEREIGNS AND THEIR COURTS 149 2. A large picture, finely painted on panel, atHampton Court (No. 313). 3. A fine picture on panel, belonging to EarlSpencer. 4. A circular miniature at Windsor, An° etatis o XXXV . 5. A portrait in a finely illuminated page of theLiber Niger, or Records of the Order of theGarter, by Dr. Robert Aldrydge, 1534-38. 6. The next portrait bearing a date is not con-temporary, but evidently taken from some authenticrepresentation of the king. It is at Windsor, andis painted on the back of a playing card byNicholas Hilliard, who was not born till 1547. In-scribed in golden letters on the dark blue-blackground 1536, aetatis suae 46. 7. A miniature in the royal collection at Windsor,inscribed An0 xxxv. Scharf considers this to bethe year of the Kings reign (1543-4). 8. A much finer miniature, probably the originalof No. 7, belonging to Mr. Magniac when ex-hibited in the Loan Collection at South Kensing-ton, 1862. 9. Portrait at Wi

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