De Vent Tudor Family Portrait. Portraits there are so many royal portraits out there and i wanted to have one place to go and find them all. These family portraits were not posed for everyone together in front of the painter as one would take a family photograph today.
Portraits of king henry viii. The artists of the tudor court are the painters and limners engaged by the monarchs of england s tudor dynasty and their courtiers between 1485 and 1603 from the reign of henry vii to the death of elizabeth i. On the left is princess mary later mary i the king s daughter by his first wife catherine of aragon and on the right princess elizabeth later elizabeth i his daughter by his second wife.
Typically managing a group of assistants and apprentices in a workshop or studio many of these artists produced works across several disciplines including portrait miniatures large.
The children all had their own residences and were rarely at court. First when the leonardo da vinci painting was stolen in 2003 and recovered in 2007 and again in 2008 when a family portrait of henry viii and his children was discovered. Attention from the world has been brought to shine on the duke of buccleuch s art collection in the last decade. This important dynastic portrait of henry viii and his family shows the king seated in the centre beneath a canopy of state flanked by his third wife jane seymour and prince edward later edward vi.