King Henry VIII (1491-1547)
after Hans Holbein the younger (Augsburg 1497/8 - London 1543)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1500 - 1599
Materials
Oil on panel
Measurements
673 x 546 mm
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Snowshill Manor and Garden, Gloucestershire
NT 1336284
Summary
Oil painting on panel, King Henry VIII, after after Hans Holbein the younger (Augsburg 1497/8 - London 1543), 16th century. Portrait of Henry VIII, head and shoulders. In November (1951) I sold to Charles Wade the oil portrait of Henry VIII on an oak panel that now hangs in the main hall of Snowshill Manor, the National Trust property near Broadway, Worcestershire. This I had purchased some weeks earlier at an extraordinary sale taking place outside Newbury, a mansion filled with pictures, the staircase of which was lined with rows and rows of portraits of every kind’. ‘After Charles Wade had made Snowshill Manor over to the National Trust, he called on us on his way down to Southampton to catch a boat to St Kitts, his island in the West Indies. I can remember his spending another one thousand five hundred pounds with me, which included that portrait of Henry VIII, telling me to take it over and deliver it to the National Trust the next day. Snowshill at that time was just so full of goods that when I arrived about a dozen people were trying to move stuff to make room to get into the main section of the house. I think myself – and Henry VIII – were both very nearly lynched in the courtyard for bringing another load of items that they had nowhere to place’. Roger Warner
Provenance
Given to the National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade.
Makers and roles
after Hans Holbein the younger (Augsburg 1497/8 - London 1543), artist