Jane Seymour (c.1509 –1537) (after 1536 original)
after Hans Holbein the younger (Augsburg 1497/8 - London 1543)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1536 - 1599
Materials
Oil on panel
Measurements
610 x 480 mm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Knole, Kent
NT 129744
Summary
Oil painting on panel, Jane Seymour (c.1509 –1537), after Hans Holbein the younger (Augsburg 1497/8 - London 1543), 16th century after an original of 1536. A three-quarter-length portrait, turned slightly to the left, gazing to the left, in red and gold embroidered decollete dress and black and gold head-dress. She was the daughter of Sir John Seymour and Margaret Wentworth, who married Henry VIII and was his third wife, 11 days after the execution of Anne Boleyn in 1536. She is turned slightly to the left, gazing to the left; her hands clasped at her waist. She wears an English hood and a deep red dress embroidered with gold thread, yellow slashed sleeves fastened with jewelled clasps. She also wear two necklaces with a jewelled pendant and a large jewelled pendant with three drop-pearls. and has rings on the forefinger and third finger of her left hand. This is a copy of an original portrait in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna or, possibly, since its 2004 cleaning, the version in the Mauritshuis in The Hague. It was revealed that the latter portrait is closer to Holbein's preliminary drawing in the Royal Collection than the Vienna painted version and was probably the portrait that Carel van Mander saw at Warmoesstraat in Amsterdam in 1604 and described as an original work.
Provenance
On loan from the Trustees of the Sackville Estate
Credit line
Knole, The Sackville Collection
Makers and roles
after Hans Holbein the younger (Augsburg 1497/8 - London 1543), publisher