Portrait of Henry VIII is a lost painting by Hans Holbein the Younger depicting Henry VIII. It is one of the most iconic images of Henry VIII and is one of the most famous portraits of any English or British monarch.

Portrait of Henry VIII, oil painting created about 1536 by outstanding German artist Hans Holbein the Younger. It is the only painting of King Henry VIII of England known to by painted by Holbein’s hand; his full-length portrait is known only by copies.

As a rare surviving portrait of the king, it is a testament of Henry’s political ambitions and artistic taste. The Portrait of Henry VIII is a loan exchange for the Wadsworth Atheneum’s painting by Caravaggio of St. Francis in Ecstasy for the exhibition Caravaggio 2025, held at the Palazzo Barberini, Galleria Nazionale, Rome.

Mar 10, 2017 · Below are some of the well known surviving portraits of the Tudor King Henry VIII in chronological order. Henry VIII, c1509, unknown artist. This is the earliest surviving portrait of Henry as king of England. It can be viewed at the Denver …

This full length portrait of the English monarch King Henry VIII is derived from the Whitehall Mural, painted by Hans Holbein in 1537. It is one of the most recognisable images in the Walker Art Gallery’s collection.

The portrait of Henry VIII in a dark tunic with a fur collar (NPG 4690) was painted around 1520 and follows the format of earlier portraits of English kings. The spandrels in the top corners contain the Tudor heraldic emblems of the rose and portcullis and the composition consciously imitates the portraiture of the Burgundian court.

A full-length portrait of Henry VIII, facing, standing with feet apart, elbows squared, and wearing a dark green surcoat with ermine collar, bejewelled cloth of gold tunic, white hose and pale biscuit coloured shoes, and a flat black cap with white plume.

Portraiture was the most popular genre in sixteenth-century England, and indeed one of the few available to artists following the schism between the Church of Rome and the Church of England, of which Henry VIII became head.

This painting was one of a group of English portraits carried out by Holbein and his school. Though German, Holbein was court painter to King Henry VIII of England, and the prototype for this image is his lost mural that once decorated the Privy Chamber of Whitehall Palace in London.

Mar 26, 2025 · The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art said Hans Holbein’s Portrait of Henry VIII (1540) is currently on display. Free 24/7 Connecticut news stream: Watch NBC CT wherever you are The portrait is ...