The John Blanke Project: Black Art in Tudor Britain
28 April 2022
The Gallery’s Tudor portraits are currently on tour to the Holburne Museum in Bath as part of The Tudors: Passion, Power and Politics exhibition. Next month, the exhibition will be heading to the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool and, joining our portraits, will be the Westminster Tournament Roll (College of Arms, London), which features two images of John Blanke - a royal trumpeter in the courts of Henry VII and Henry VIII. John Blanke remains the only Black Tudor for whom there is an identifiable image. In this blog, Michael Ohajuru, founder of the John Blanke project, examines the significance of this image.