Queen Anne Boleyn (c.1500-1536). On the verso, a coat of arms of the Wyatt family, and other heraldic sketches c.1533-6

c.1533-6

Hans Holbein the Younger

Royal Collection | RCIN 912189

William Carey and Mary Boleyn

George Boleyn?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Unidentified_Man,_by_workshop_of_Hans_Holbein_the_Younger.jpg

Metropolitan Museum of Art | Accession number 49.7.28

«This painting is based on a drawing in the Royal Collection at Windsor. Scholars do not these days attribute it to Holbein, owing to the style of the underdrawing and weaknesses in the execution. Susan Foister believes it to be a workshop portrait painted by an assistant under Holbein's supervision, while John Rowlands believes it is the work of a follower who might have trained under Holbein.»

Surely I am not the only one who has looked at this portrait and thought that it might be George Boleyn? 

It would mean that he was a little younger than usually surmised, though, born in 1506/7 rather than 1504.

Elizabeth I

Sir Thomas Wyatt the Younger

Sir Thomas Wyatt the Younger (1521 – 11 April 1554)

Blank space

Blank space

Henry Carey

Katherine Parr

Katherine Parr

c. 1545

Master John

National Portrait Gallery | NPG 4451

For more portraits of Katherine Parr see our Katherine Parr page.

Thomas Seymour

Anne Stanhope, Duchess of Somerset

Anne Stanhope, Duchess of Somerset (?1497-1587), aged 16

Thomas Youngerman Gooderson

In the manner of Bernaert van Orley

Petworth House

On loan from the Egremont Private Collection

National Trust | NT 485062

«Oil painting on canvas, Anne Stanhope, Duchess of Somerset (?1497-1587), aged 16 (in the manner of Bernaert van Orley) by Thomas Youngerman Gooderson (fl.1846-1868), inscribed across top of painting: THE . DVTCHES . OF . SOMERSET . / ÆTATIS . HER . GRACE, / SVE . I6. A head-and-shoulders portrait of a young woman, turned slightly to the right, gazing to the right, wearing a white coif, brown dress, with dark brown fur collar and with a small chain round her neck and hanging chain tucked into the white triangle of her bodice. The original at Syon House looks Flemish c.1530-90 but is probably not of an English sitter.»

The Lady Jane Grey Reference Guide’s photograph of Lady Katherine Grey and her son, catching the original painting of Anne Stanhope, Duchess of Somerset, aged 16, at Syon House at the same time.

Anne Seymour (née Stanhope), Duchess of Somerset

By Thomas Nugent,

Published by Edward Harding

After Silvester (Sylvester) Harding

Stipple engraving, published 1 March 1792

National Portrait Gallery | NPG D24869

The above engraving is perhaps the most famous image of Anne Stanhope, Duchess of Somerset. 

Anne Stanhope, Duchess of Somerset

Published by Edward Harding

After Sylvester Harding

Print made by Henry Meyer

After Antonis Mor

The British Museum | 1848,1125.371

«Portrait of the Duchess of Somerset, three quarter length, nearly full face, standing, holding gloves and miniature; from a picture formerly at Strawberry Hill; after A More; No X in a set of plates; vignette Stipple on chine collé»

This engraving must be based on the same portrait as the engraving above.

Anne Stanhope, Duchess of Somerset

Chevening

This portrait must be the one the above two engravings are based on and that was in Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill Collection:

«1774 Description: Anne Stanhope duchess of Somerset, second wife of the protector, whose portrait she holds in one hand: a present to Mr. Walpole from Mr. Bateman.»

Anne Stanhope, Duchess of Somerset?

Said to be Queen Mary I, Daughter of Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragon

Museums Sheffield

Supplied by The Public Catalogue Foundation

Possible identification is based on the similarity to the Chevening Portrait above. Facial similarity, but also the unusually large hands and arms in both portraits. The fashion is also similar, and entirely in keeping with when Anne Stanhope, Duchess of Somerset would have been at the age of the lady in this portrait.

The sitter is clearly not Mary I Tudor.

Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk

Thomas Howard, Third Duke of Norfolk (1473-1554)

c.1539

Hans Holbein the Younger

Royal Collection | RCIN 404439

Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey

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Comments

The Portrait of a Woman, Sometimes Identified as the Duchess of Suffolk, c.1560 is the same woman as ‘Unknown woman, wearing a cross’ in cloth of silver, nearly half way down your homepage. Thanks.

Cut a long-ish story short: i think it is FG. Thanks.