I'm still thinking that this portrait is (at best) a portrait of Mary of 
Scotland which has been confused with Mary Tudor. The style of everything about 
it is terribly French and at least a decade after Mary Tudor died. Since Mary 
Tudor married the King of Spain, she wasn't terribly popular in France and she 
had her portrait painted by only a couple of artists in her relatively brief 
reign and they were not French. 
 
Karen
Seamstrix

-- Patricia Dunham <[email protected]> wrote:
My dear husband is loopy tonight, too much work out in the cold 
today.  So he was noodling around on-line, bored with his cheating 
cribbage program (!), and found the original Mary I painting.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheHouseOfTudor

still looking for an attribution.  (for hours and hours and hours!  no luck!!)

ah, the wonder-boy does it again!  I had cleaned away all the links 
to the engraving that started this, but he has found it 
http://womenshistory.about.com/od/tudor/a/tudor_women_4.htm  The 
caption there says "after Holbein"!

Comparing the two, we find it very interesting how much older the 
monochrome looks (the person in the monochrome, I mean), vs. the 
child in color!  The white furring in the color image looks much more 
reasonable, too.

enjoy!
Chimene & Gerek
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