The background looks to me like tapestry, or it might be painted
pannelling. I've never visited the Houses of Parliament but I bet these
are all along a corridor or gallery somewhere.
Jean
Elizabeth Walpole wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: "Melissa Brown Muckart"
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Sent: Friday, August 03, 2007 7:18 AM
Subject: [h-cost] help dating a portrait of Mary Tudor
Hello everyone,
I am embarking on some Tudor costume. I am searching for a citation
for the portrait on this page:
http://www.explore-parliament.net/nssMovies/02/0296/0296_.htm
I've looked around the website and cannot find any contact
information for the website itself nor anywhere on the site that
gives credit to the artists for the portraits therein. I've googled
until my eyes bled, but was unable to find the first portrait
anywhere else, which leads me to think it may be a more modern piece
(a learned friend suggested perhaps Victorian).
I think this is probably Victorian looking at most of the other
pictures listed nearby in this list of images
http://www.explore-parliament.net/nssMovies/index.htm and the fact
that images like this
http://www.explore-parliament.net/nssMovies/02/0279/0279_.htm image of
Anne Boleyn (which the website clearly says "The painting on which
this portrait is based is now known to show another Anne, a Queen of
Hungary." other portraits e.g. Elizabeth of York, Catherine of Aragon
and Catherine Howard also directly mention the original portraits they
are based on) is painted on the same background I believe they are of
the same date and therefore the image you're looking at is a 19th
century (or later) copy, not a period image.
Elizabeth
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Elizabeth Walpole
Canberra Australia
ewalpole[at]tpg.com.au
http://au.geocities.com/amiperiodornot/
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