Important British Paintings 1500-1850

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Manner of Hans Holbein the Younger 1497/8-1543

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Description

  • Sir Peter Paul Rubens
  • Portrait of Catherine Parr (1512-1548)
  • inscribed along the upper edge:CATHARINA REGINA UXOR HENRICI VIII and further inscribed on the reverse with the identity of the sitter
  • oil on panel
half length, wearing a black dress and a jewelled necklace

Catalogue Note

The sitter was the daughter of Sir Thomas Parr of Kendal. In 1543 she married Henry VIII, becoming his sixth wife. After the King's death she married Lord Thomas Seymour of Sudeley and died at Sudeley Castle.