Mary i

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…

“As Mary lay in her bed in St. James Palace, the halls echoed with silence. All but the most staunchly loyal members of court had abandoned her, flocking to her sister Elizabeth, who would soon wear…

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 I, daughter of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon; sister of Edward VI and Elizabeth I

Mary I by the English School after Hans Eworth, c. 1550s-Though the later Tudor Era gowns, those we see in portraits from the Elizabethan Period, capture much of our attention, it is the form of this earlier style I find so pleasing.The classic mid-16th century English look is created in large part by the farthingale: an inverted small triangle of the bodice over a larger one of the skirt.

Description I did this for , and because I thought Mary Tudor needed a picture where she was young and cute, as opposed to where she's the usual stereotypical heavy. It's loosely inspired by the Carolyn Meyer novel, "Mary, Bloody Mary," the first book in the Young Royals series. Basically I had this image in my head, and I had to get it down in paint before I lost interest in doing it. Mary's here, about 15 or so, dressed in a relatively simple red court gown and with her hair loose, because…

500 years since her birth, Mary I is a monarch who continues to divide opinion.

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