In \'Henry V,\' Henry is presented by Shakespeare in several different roles: a political figure, a private man, a leader, and an accomplished soldier. Shakespeare\'s dramatic portrait relies on presenting Henry through his words and actions, the different people he encounters as a King, a...
Portrait purported to be Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury The Poles owned land in Cheshire and Buckinghamshire. Richard’s father, a Welshman, was buried in Bisham Abbey, the mausoleum of the Montagu Earls of Salisbury in 1479. Richard Neville, the Kingmaker’s father was reinterred there...
Anne’s portrait pleased him, and arrangements were made for the pair to wed. But Anne’s arrival in England proved to be a bit of a disaster to say the least. Seeing her in person, Henry took an instant dislike to Anne and, finding her ugly, referred to her as “The Mare of ...
The portrait survived the reign of King Henry VIII but was destroyed in the fire which devastated the palace in 1698. A full-sized cartoon of the left-hand side of the work which was completed by Holbein in preparation for its creation is held in the collection of the National Portrait Gal...
"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 young man of a few years later, to the set-piece ...
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When he was in his twenty-second year he was asked to paint the portrait of a young lady whom he had previously observed and admired when he was sketching from nature in the fields. She was the daughter of Peter Edgar of Bridgelands and widow of Count Leslie. The lady was speedily ...
“The Old Man Fugue,” and said it was like an epitaph composed for himself by one who was very old and tired and sorry for things; and he made young Ernest Pontifex in ‘The Way of All Flesh’ offer it to Edward Overton as an epitaph for his Aunt Alethea. Butler, however, left ...