Henry The 8th essaysHenry VIII was born on June 28th 1491, in Greenwich Palace, London. He was the second son of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York. Henry VIII came to the throne on the June 24th 1509, after his father's death. Almost 18 at the time, Henry
The 8th Earl of Northumberland: Oil painting on canvas, Henry Percy, 8th Earl of Northumberland (c.1532-1585) by Sir Anthony Van Dyck (Antwerp 1599 – London 1641). A posthumous three-quarter-length portrait, standing, turned slightly to the right, gazing at the spectator, short cropped hai...
The work is understood to have been commissioned for one of the King’s more private chambers in the Palace of Whitehall which Henry had seized after the downfall of Cardinal Thomas Wolsey. The portrait survived the reign of King Henry VIII but was destroyed in the fire which devastated the ...
Howard also became close to the artist, Hans Holbein. "Howard seems to have sat to the great Holbein more frequently than anyone else. The portrait sequence shows both the man's obsession with himself and his self-development, from the fresh-faced youth of 1532; through the rather uncertain...
Epitaphs always fascinated him, and formerly he used to say he should like to be buried at Langar and to have on his tombstone the subject of the last of Handel’s ‘Six Great Fugues’. He called this “The Old Man Fugue,” and said it was like an epitaph composed for himself by ...