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Summary
Lucas de Heere : The Family of Henry VIII: An Allegory of the Tudor Succession | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Artist |
artist QS:P170,Q2419460,P5102,Q230768
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Title |
The Family of Henry VIII: An Allegory of the Tudor Succession
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Object type | painting | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Genre | allegory | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Description |
The inscription shows that the work was a gift for Francis Walsingham, to whose family its provenance can be traced. Along the bottom, it reads: "THE QUENE. TO. WALSINGHAM. THIS. TABLET. SENTE. MARKE. OF. HER. PEOPLES. AND HER. OWNE. CONTENTE". Inscription around the frame: "A FACE OF MUCHE NOBILLITYE LOE IN A LITLE ROOME. FOWR STATES WITH THEYR CONDITIONS HEARE SHADOWED IN. A SHOWE A FATHER MORE THEN VALYANT. A RARE AND VERTUOUS SOON. A ZEALUS DAUGHTER IN HER KIND WHAT ELS THE WORLD DOTH KNOWE. AND LAST OF ALL A VYRGIN QUEEN TO ENGLANDS JOY WE SEE SUCCESSYVELY TO HOLD THE RIGHT, AND VERTUES OF THE THREE".
Owing to a similarity of style and composition with Lucas de Heere's Solomon and the Queen of Sheba (1559) and other works, the art historian Roy Strong has attributed the work to de Heere; the art scholar and curator Karen Hearn, however, regards the attribution as speculative. Another source for the composition may be the anachronistic (Queen Jane Seymour died shortly after giving birth to Prince Edward) group portrait The Family of Henry VIII ( c . 1545). Prototypes for the portraits have been detected in paintings by Holbein (Henry), Scrots (Edward), Mor (Mary and Philip), and, less confidently, Hilliard (Elizabeth). (Reference: Hearn, pp. 81–82.) |
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Date |
circa 1572
date QS:P571,+1572-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
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Medium |
oil
on
panel
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q106857709,P518,Q861259
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Dimensions | 131.2 × 184 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q1321874
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Current location |
on show at Sudeley Castle, Gloucestershire.
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Inscriptions |
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References | RKDimages ID : 306598 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Source/Photographer | Karen Hearn, Dynasties , London: Tate, 1995, ISBN 1854371576 , p. 81. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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