If one could make alive again for other people some cobwebbed skein of old dead intrigues and breathe breath and character into dead names and stiff portraits.
That is history to me! ~George Macaulay Trevelyan
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Anonymous. Elizabeth I, ca. 1560-65
Nicholas Hilliard (English, ca. 1547-1619), after Hans Holbein the Younger (German, 1497/98-1543) Henry VIII, from the Bosworth Jewel, ca. 1600.
Nicholas Hilliard (English, ca. 1547-1619), after Guillaume Scrots (Flemish, active 1537-1553). Edward VI, from the Bosworth Jewel, ca. 1600.
Lucas Horenbout (South Netherlandish, ca. 1490-1544). Henry Fitzroy, Duke of Richmond and Somerset, ca. 1533-34
Hans Holbein the Younger (German, 1497/98-1543). (Probably) Katherine Howard, ca. 1540.
Lucas Horenbout (South Netherlandish, ca. 1490-1544). Henry VIII, ca. 1526-27
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