King Edward VI (1537–1553)
after Guillaume Scrots (fl.1537-1553)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1800 - 1899
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
620 x 450 mm
Order this imageCollection
Lytes Cary Manor, Somerset
NT 254694
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, King Edward VI (1537 - 1553), after Guillaume Scrots (fl.1537-1553). A half-length version of a full-length portrait by an Unknown artist in the National Portrait Gallery, circa 1547, after William Scrots, a Flemish artist who was employed by Henry VIII from 1545 and until 1553, of which the original version is in Royal Collection. This portrait differs in that it has a plain background. He was the son of Henry VIII and Jane Seymour and succeeded his father, of whom this portrait mimics the forceful pose seen in Holbein's famous Whitehall Cartoon, on 28th January 1547, aged nine. He was dominated first by the Duke of Somerset as Lord Protector, and later by the Duke of Northumberland who attempted Edward to will the crown to his daughter-in-law Lady Jane Grey in order to ensure the Protestant succession. He died of tuberculosis shortly before his sixteenth birthday.
Provenance
Bequeathed to the National Trust, along with the house, furniture and other contents collected by Sir Walter Jenner, 2nd Bt (1860 - 1948), in 1949.
Credit line
Lytes Cary Manor, The Jenner Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
after Guillaume Scrots (fl.1537-1553) , artist