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Feb 23, 2015 · Not one of the handsomest women in the world; she is of middling stature, swarthy complexion, long neck, wide mouth, a bosom not much raised and eyes which are black and beautiful. Contemporaries were united in their belief that Anne's dark eyes were her most striking feature.
Jan 13, 2020 · With a portrait of Anne Boleyn coming to light from the National Portrait Gallery of Ireland we take a look to determine if it’s contemporary, or not. After her execution, anything that would remind Henry, or his subjects, of Anne Boleyn was destroyed.
Oct 28, 2018 · Now it may have grown darker with time, but a new book The Creation of Anne Boleyn looks beyond the Hollywod portrayal and thinks her hair was red. She could still have appeared to have dark hair as red does not mean bright coloured: it can be a dark shade and appear almost black.
- Argument For Holbein’s Sketch
- Arguments Against Holbein’s Sketch
- Roy Strong’s Anne Boleyn
- The Nidd Hall Anne Boleyn
- Eric Ives and The Real Anne Boleyn
- Roland Hui and The NPG Portrait
- My Anne Boleyn
- Other Anne Boleyn Portraits
- Sources
In their article “An old tradition reasserted: Holbein’s portrait of Queen Anne Boleyn”, John Rowlands and David Starkey argue that the chalk drawing by Hans Holbein, inscribed “Anna Bollein Queen” (see below), is the true face of Anne Boleyn. Rowlands and Starkey state that although this sketch has been rejected in the past by the likes of K T Par...
In his article “A Reassessment of Queen Anne Boleyn’s Portraiture”, Roland Hui argues that “it seems unlikely that Anne with her much commented upon sense of style would have permitted to be depicted as such” and that “to believe that Anne was goitrous (not to mention deformed by a large wart says the writer), one would also have to accept the ridi...
Roy Strong, the eminent art historian, has suggested that the Lucas Horenbolte (Horenboute) miniature of an Unknown Woman c1526/1527 is Anne Boleyn because the appearance of the woman is “perfectly compatible” with the Anne Boleyn seen in the National Portrait Gallery painting. However, Roland Hui argues that “it is difficult to reconcile the two l...
The Nidd Hall portrait showing a woman similar to Holbein’s Jane Seymour but with an AB brooch has been identified as “The Most Excellent Princesse Anne Boleyn” but Roland Hui argues that her likeness has been derived from Henry VIII’s third wife, Jane Seymour. He notes that a variant of this portrait, an engraving by Renold Elstrack, showed the si...
In “The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn”, Eriv Ives writes of how there is “a resolution of this pictorial game of ‘find the lady’ ” and that the key to it is the Chequers locket ring which belonged to Elizabeth I. This ring contains two enamel portraits – one of Elizabeth and one of her mother, Anne Boleyn – and Ives writes of how “the face mask is ...
Hui agrees with Ives about the NPG portrait being a true likeness of Anne Boleyn. He states that although it has often been discounted because it dates back to the late 16th century, during Elizabeth I’s reign, costume evidence goes in its favour. In the portrait, the woman is “fashionably attired unlike the lady of the Windsor drawing [the chalk s...
We all have our favourite Anne Boleyn portraits don’t we? Well, mine is the Hever Castle portrait, the one where Anne is holding the rose. Why? Because I feel that it is the closest match to contemporary and Elizabethan descriptions of Anne:- While she was not the classic English rose, Anne was an attractive woman who had the likes of Henry Percy, ...
Robert Mylne and Olivia Peyton from the Anne Boleyn Facebook page brought two other Anne Boleyn portraits to my attention. The first is a miniature by an unknown artist, although it is inscribed Lucas Cornelli, which dates back to c1600 and which shows Anne Boleyn in her famous B necklace and the same outfit as shown in the NPG and Hever portraits....
“An Old Tradition Reasserted: Holbein’s Portrait of Queen Anne Boleyn”, John Rowlands and David Starkey, The Burlington Magazine, Vol. 125, No. 959 (Feb., 1983), pp. 88+90-92“A Reassessment of Queen Anne Boleyn’s Portraiture”, Roland Hui“The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn”, Eric Ives, 2004Nov 4, 2011 · In recent times we have seen experts debate the identities of many Tudor portraits as new information comes to light. Unfortunately, in the case of Anne Boleyn there is not one undisputed, definitive contemporary portrait to have survived instead only likenesses remain.
Mar 14, 2007 · Now, 30 years after a [c. 1530] Holbein portrait in the Royal Collection was demoted to the status of an unknown lady from the court of Henry VIII, new research has reinstated it as a...
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Day 1 of Claire Ridgway's three-day event on Anne Boleyn, the Woman behind the myths. Claire looks at the surviving portraits we have of Anne, the remaining contemporary images and contemporary...
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