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'A description of Master Latimer, preaching before King Edward the sixth, in the preaching place at Westminster'
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'A description of Master Latimer, preaching before King Edward the sixth, in the preaching place at Westminster'
by Unknown artist
woodcut, mid 16th century
5 3/4 in. x 7 1/8 in. (145 mm x 181 mm) paper size
Purchased with help from the Friends of the National Libraries and the Pilgrim Trust, 1966
Reference Collection
NPG D23050
Sittersback to top
- King Edward VI (1537-1553), Reigned 1547-53. Sitter associated with 48 portraits. Identify
- Hugh Latimer (circa 1485-1555), Bishop of Worcester. Sitter associated with 33 portraits. Identify
Linked publicationsback to top
- Bolland, Charlotte, The Tudors Passion, Power and Politics, 2022, p. 59
- Bolland, Charlotte; Cooper, Tarnya, The Real Tudors: Kings and Queens Rediscovered, 2014 (accompanying the exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery from 12th September 2014 to 1st March 2015), p. 84
Placesback to top
- Place portrayed: United Kingdom: England, London (Privy Garden, Palace of Whitehall, Westminster, London)
Events of 1530back to top
Current affairs
The Lord Chancellor, Cardinal Thomas Wolsey is arrested for treason after failing to secure the annulment of Henry VIII's marriage to Catherine of Aragon. He dies at Leicester Abbey on his way from York to the Tower of London.Thomas Cromwell becomes a member of the King's Council.
Art and science
The Frisian mathematician and cartographer Gemma Frisius publishes De Principiis Astronomiae Cosmographicae (On the Principles of Astronomy and Cosmography). It features the first description of how longitude could be determined by means of time difference.International
The Holy Roman Emperor Charles V is formally crowned by Pope Clement VII and invested with the Kingdom of Naples.The Augsburg Confession is presented to Charles V. Written by the German theologian Philip Melanchthon, this statement of Protestant belief is one of the principal documents of the reformation.
The Florentine Republic is defeated by the forces of the Holy Roman Empire and the Medici family restored to power.
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