Royal portraits are enjoying a spike in attention at present. While art historians are salivating over the recent discovery of the Catherine of Aragon pendant, Hever Castle, the childhood home of her successor as queen, is capitalising on its Tudor connection by mounting Capturing a Queen: The Image of Anne Boleyn. It has assembled the greatest number of portraits believed to be of Boleyn ever attempted (Guinness, take note).
Curators Owen Emmerson and Kate McCaffrey say it is a “fitting [way] to mark the quincentennial anniversary of Henry VIII’s courtship of Anne”. I look forward to the quincentennial exhibition marking her execution too.
