Unknown woman catalogued by Sir Herbert Henry Raphael, 1st Bt as Queen Mary I
10 of 17 portraits by Anthonis Mor (Antonio Moro)
© National Portrait Gallery, London
Unknown woman catalogued by Sir Herbert Henry Raphael, 1st Bt as Queen Mary I
by Bart Vazquez, after Anthonis Mor (Antonio Moro)
stipple engraving, 1793
14 3/8 in. x 10 5/8 in. (365 mm x 269 mm) paper size
Given by Sir Herbert Henry Raphael, 1st Bt, 1913
Reference Collection
NPG D20392
Sitterback to top
- Queen Mary I (1516-1558), Reigned 1553-58; daughter of Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragon. Sitter associated with 50 portraits.
Artistsback to top
- Anthonis Mor (Antonio Moro) (1516-1575 or 1576), Portrait painter. Artist or producer associated with 17 portraits, Sitter in 4 portraits.
- Bart Vazquez (active 1793). Artist or producer associated with 1 portrait.
Events of 1793back to top
Current affairs
Whig MP Charles Grey enters a motion for parliamentary reform but is defeated in the House of Commons.Art and science
Radical philosopher William Godwin publishes Political Justice, an inflamatory document that promoted rational anarchism. This crystallised a wider feeling that a new era of world peace and progress was beginning.Sir William Beechey is appointed Portrait Painter to her Majesty, Queen Charlotte.
International
Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette are executed and the Reign of Terror begins.France declares war on Britain, Holland and then Spain. William Pitt addresses the House of Commons and Britain hesitantly joins the first coalition of anti-revolutionary European states to oppose the French threat.
Attack on Corsica in which Captain Horatio Nelson loses an eye.
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