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The History Press | Mary I: Tyrant or trailblazer?

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Portrait of Queen Mary I by unknown artist, c.1590. English school. Oil on panel; 56 x 44.5cm. Sold at Christie’s in 2007 for £21,600. The portrait used to belong to Newburgh Priory near Coxwold, North Yorkshire, which was once visited by Mary’s aunt, Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scotland. The painting dates to a period when portraits of past royals were sought after. It may have even been part of a set of the Kings and Queens of England. Now owned by The Weiss Gallery…

Joyce Wilford (d. 1580), Wife of Sir James Wilford (d. 1550) by ? (Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge - Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, UK) From artuk.org.

Mary Tudor (1516-1558) succeeded as Queen of England in 1553 and married Philip II of Spain in the following year. A disastrous cleaning in 1976 revealed that the painting is substantially a 19th-century pastiche, perhaps over a 17th-century original.

Mary Tudor was the daughter of Henry VIII and his wife Katherine of Aragon. She was born in 1516 and was their only surviving child. After many years of

Mary, Queen of Scots (AKA Mary Stuart) is one of history’s most disastrous queens. From the time she became an infant monarch to her tragic demise, Mary ...

Princess Elizabeth, daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn and half-sister to Mary I. The painting is attributed to William Scrots and was painted in the last years of Henry’s reign. This was painted at a time when Elizabeth and her sister enjoyed a friendly relationship, prior the days when it would become incredibly strained on grounds of religion and politics (and to some degree parentage).