English School, 16th century- Portrait of a boy, traditionally identified as Henry VIII; oil on canvas, 31 x 24.9 cm. Offered together with A. F. Pollard, MA, ‘Henry VIII’, three quarter bound in leather and vellum with gold tooling to the...

English School,

16th century-

Portrait of a boy, traditionally identified as Henry VIII;

oil on canvas, 31 x 24.9 cm.

Offered together with A. F. Pollard, MA, ‘Henry VIII’, three quarter bound in leather and vellum with gold tooling to the front board of the Royal Arms, gold lettering and tooling of the Tudor Rose, Portculis and Fleur-de-Lis to the spine, with hand-coloured frontispiece of Henry VIII from the painting after Holbein in the Royal Collection, captioned tissue-guards, limited edition no.711 of 1150, Goupil & Co. of 25 Bedford Street, Strand, London, 1902; and John Walder, 'All Colour Book of Henry VIII', London, 1973.

Provenance:

With Alfred Weaver, Wardour Street, 1859.;

By whom sold to Sir John Hay Williams (1794-1859), 2nd Baronet of Bodelwyddan, and of Rhianva, Anglesey, June 1859.;

By descent to the present owner.

Literature:

A. F. Pollard, MA, 'Henry VIII', 1902, p.31 (illustrated).;

Ed. Sir Harry Verney Bt, 'The Verneys of Claydon: A Seventeenth-century English Family', London, 1968 (illustrated, unpaginated).;

John Walder, 'All Colour Book of Henry VIII', London, 1973, p.7 (illustrated).;

Lady Sarah (wife of Sir John Hay Williams), 'Memoranda Concerning Rhianva for the use of our children', 1859, p.63.;

Catalogue of Pictures, Rhianva, p.13 (erroneously said to be on panel).

Note: This is presumably a copy of a contemporary portrait that is not believed to have survived and is therefore, possibly, the only known picture of Henry VIII at this age in existence.

Pollard (1859-1944) was a renowned Tudor scholar, appointed to the editorial staff of the Dictionary of National Biography, for which he contributed around 500 entries mainly on figures from the Tudor Period.
Held in a 19th-century auricula frame. Please refer to department for condition report.