File:Portrait of a Woman, inscribed "Anna Bollein Queen", by Hans Holbein the Younger.jpg
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DescriptionPortrait of a Woman, inscribed "Anna Bollein Queen", by Hans Holbein the Younger.jpg |
English: Portrait of a Woman, inscribed in gold over red "Anna Bollein Queen". Black and coloured chalks on pink prepared paper, 28.1 × 19.2 cm. Royal Collection, Windsor.
The question whether or not this Holbein drawing is of Anne Boleyn has produced sharp division among scholars. It comes from a priceless collection discovered by Queen Caroline of Ansbach in a bureau at Kensington in 1727. The drawing is one of two by Holbein inscribed as of Anne Boleyn, the other being in the British Museum. The attribution of the present drawing as Anne Boleyn was made by John Cheke, tutor of the future Edward VI, in 1542. Cheke had entered the royal service after a period working at Cambridge University, and so he may never himself have seen Anne Boleyn, who had been executed in 1536; however, he knew people who had known her. For a long time, many scholars, including K. T. Parker and Anne Boleyn's biographer Eric Ives, have doubted that this portrait was of Anne: they point to the occasional mistake in Cheke's attributions, to the sketches of Wyatt heraldry on the back of the sheet, and to dissimilarities between this image and other possible likenesses of Anne, who was said to have had darker hair than depicted. It has also been argued that Holbein would not have drawn a woman of Anne's stature in an undercap. In Ives's view, "There is little to reinstate either Holbein drawing".
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Date | circa 1532–1536 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Source | Susan Doran (ed), Elizabeth: The Exhibition at the National Maritime Museum, London: Chatto and Windus, 2003, ISBN 0701174765. p. 11. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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