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Portrait of Henry VIII (1491-1547; reigned 1509-47)
Portrait of Henry VIII (1491-1547; reigned 1509-47)

Portrait of Henry VIII (1491-1547; reigned 1509-47)

Artist (German, 1497 - 1543)
Date16th century
Mediumoil on oak panel
DimensionsOverall: 64 x 51.8 cm (25 3/16 x 20 3/8 in.)
ClassificationsEuropean Art
Credit LineAnonymous Gift, 2000
Terms
  • People
  • Portraits
  • Henry VIII, King of England, 1491-1547
  • Paintings
Object number2000/172
Status
On view
Current Location
  • AGO, S.08, West Wall, Screen 3
Collections
Exhibition HistoryThe Future Now, Zacks Galleries, June 14, 2006 - November 1, 2007 (NOTE: taken off view November 20, 2006); Walpole, Horace, Catalogue of the Pictures and Drawings in the Holbein Chamber at Strawberry Hill, 1760; Walpole, Horace, A Description of the Villa of Mr. Horace Walpole at Strawberry-Hill near Twickenham, Middlesex, Strawberry Hill Press, 1784, p.47; Walpole, Horace, The Works of Horatio Walpole, Earl of Orford (5 volumes), Strawberry Hill Press, 1798, Vol.II, p.460; Waagen, G.F. Galleries and Cabinets of Art in Great Britain, John Murray, London, 1857, P.498; Lewis, W.S. (ed); Pictures From Locko Park, Derbyshire (Collection of Captain P.J.B. Drury-Lowe);Nottingham University Art Gallery, 1969, no. 18 plate VIII
Exhibitions
Henry VIII
The Future Now
Period16th Century
Signednone observed
Primary MakerHans Holbein, the younger
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Wybrand Symonsz. de Geest I
1624
Portrait of a Lady of the von Kreps Family
Bartholomaeus Bruyn, the younger
1580/1585
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Pieter Brueghel, the younger
mid-16th to mid-17th century
Virgin and Child
Albert Bouts
mid-15th to mid-16th century
The Massacre of the Innocents
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Bernaert van Orley
c. 1535-1540
He is Coming
Otto Willem Albertus Roelofs
late 19th-early 20th century
The Lady with the Lilacs
Arthur Hughes
1863