Tudor Family Portrait. Explore the tudor pick up guides. The syon house portrait has traditionally been called lady jane grey but historian and specialist in tudor portraiture sir roy strong identified it on good grounds as elizabeth in 1969.
For the king s likeness painters relied on the holbein portrait in the whitehall mural. The near identical audley end portrait is labelled in a later hand as jane but the berry hill portrait has long been identified as elizabeth. Tudor family portrait is the story of the johnsons an ordinary middle class family living their everyday lives in sixteenth century england.
The house of tudor was an english royal house of welsh origin descended from the tudors of penmynydd tudor monarchs ruled the kingdom of england and its realms including their ancestral wales and the lordship of ireland later the kingdom of ireland from 1485 until 1603 with six monarchs in that period.
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. Queen elizabeth wants a tudor family portrait to be made to show her and all the members of the tudor family past and present. Portraits of king henry viii. The house of tudor was an english royal house of welsh origin descended from the tudors of penmynydd tudor monarchs ruled the kingdom of england and its realms including their ancestral wales and the lordship of ireland later the kingdom of ireland from 1485 until 1603 with six monarchs in that period.