Keywords: Anne Boleyn? the Nidd Hall portrait.jpg Anne Boleyn Apart from a damaged medal no contemporary portrait of Anne Boleyn has survived perhaps because her memory was purged after her execution in 1536 During the reign of her daughter Elizabeth I however her memory was revived and in the late 16th century a fashion for sets of Kings and Queens of England led to the painting of a number of portraits of her of which the present picture is one The portraits clearly derive from two separate traditions though how closely from lost originals if at all is not known The portrait most often reproduced in books is one at the National Portrait gallery in good condition in which the sitter wears a French hood The present portrait no less nor more valid is of a separate type and was engraved as Anne Boleyn by Reynold Elsrack in 1618 The sitter wears a gable hood and a brooch in the form of a single drop pearl hanging from the monogram AB late otherdate century 16 Oil on panel Private Collection institution http //www geocities com/boleynfamily/anne/birth html Eric Ives The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn Oxford Blackwell 2005 ISBN 9781405134637 pp 42 “44 Roy Strong Tudor and Jacobean Portraits London HMSO 1969 p 7 other versions <gallery>Anne Boleyn 16th century jpg</gallery> PD-old-100 16th-century unidentified painters Anne Boleyn 16th-century paintings not categorised by year 16th-century oil portraits of women at bust length Gable hoods Women looking left in art Anne Boleyn? the Nidd Hall portrait.jpg Anne Boleyn Apart from a damaged medal no contemporary portrait of Anne Boleyn has survived perhaps because her memory was purged after her execution in 1536 During the reign of her daughter Elizabeth I however her memory was revived and in the late 16th century a fashion for sets of Kings and Queens of England led to the painting of a number of portraits of her of which the present picture is one The portraits clearly derive from two separate traditions though how closely from lost originals if at all is not known The portrait most often reproduced in books is one at the National Portrait gallery in good condition in which the sitter wears a French hood The present portrait no less nor more valid is of a separate type and was engraved as Anne Boleyn by Reynold Elsrack in 1618 The sitter wears a gable hood and a brooch in the form of a single drop pearl hanging from the monogram AB late otherdate century 16 Oil on panel Private Collection institution http //www geocities com/boleynfamily/anne/birth html Eric Ives The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn Oxford Blackwell 2005 ISBN 9781405134637 pp 42 “44 Roy Strong Tudor and Jacobean Portraits London HMSO 1969 p 7 other versions <gallery>Anne Boleyn 16th century jpg</gallery> PD-old-100 16th-century unidentified painters Portraits of Anne Boleyn 16th-century paintings not categorised by year 16th-century oil portraits of women at bust length Gable hoods Women looking left in art |