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Princess Mary, later Queen (1516-1558) c.1536
Black and coloured chalks, and pen and ink on pale pink prepared paper | 38.6 x 29.1 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 912220
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A portrait drawing of Princess Mary (1516-1558), later Queen Mary I, daughter of Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragon. A bust length portrait facing three-quarters to the left. She wears a pearl necklace and pendant. Inscribed in an eighteenth-century hand at upper left: The Lady Mary after Queen. Mary Tudor was marginalised after her parents' divorce. Although unpopular with Anne Boleyn, she was welcomed back to court by Jane Seymour and became particularly close to her father's last wife, Katherine Parr. On Henry's death, she supported the accession of her brother, but became a vocal opponent of Edward VI's advisers when they instituted religious reform. Mary inherited the throne in 1553 after overthrowing her rival, Lady Jane Grey.
Provenance
Henry VIII; Edward VI, 1547; Henry FitzAlan, 12th Earl of Arundel; by whom bequeathed to John, Lord Lumley, 1580; by whom probably bequeathed to Henry, Prince of Wales, 1609, and thus inherited by Prince Charles (later Charles I), 1612; by whom exchanged with Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of Pembroke, 1627/8; by whom given to Thomas Howard, 14th Earl of Arundel; acquired by Charles II by 1675
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Medium and techniques
Black and coloured chalks, and pen and ink on pale pink prepared paper
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38.6 x 29.1 cm (sheet of paper)
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RL 12220Featured in
ExhibitionHenry VIII : a 500th anniversary exhibition : Drawings Gallery
explores the life of one of the most significant figures in the history of the English monarchy
ExhibitionThe Northern Renaissance: Dürer to Holbein : The Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace
Over 100 works by the greatest Northern European artists of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries
