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Katherine Parr

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Katherine Parr

by William Camden Edwards, after Hans Holbein the Younger
line engraving, early 19th century
12 1/4 in. x 8 3/8 in. (312 mm x 214 mm) paper size
Given by the daughter of compiler William Fleming MD, Mary Elizabeth Stopford (née Fleming), 1931
Reference Collection
NPG D24191

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  • Katherine Parr (1512-1548), Sixth Queen of Henry VIII. Sitter associated with 12 portraits.

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  • William Camden Edwards (1777-1855), Engraver. Artist or producer associated with 47 portraits, Sitter in 1 portrait.
  • Hans Holbein the Younger (1497 or 1498-1543), Painter, printmaker and designer; son of Hans Holbein the Elder. Artist or producer associated with 310 portraits, Sitter associated with 25 portraits.

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Widespread food riots after poor harvests of 1798-9. Theorist, Thomas Malthus, controversially argues that poverty and food shortages are an inevitable consequence of population growth, challenging assumptions that populousness was a sign of national prosperity and power. His thesis contributed forcefully to the debate over the existing Poor Law.

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William Wordsworth publishes his Preface to the Lyrical Ballads; a retrospective explanation of his experimental poems written with Samuel Taylor Coleridge. It becomes one of the best-known manifestos of Romantic literature.

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Howard Jones

20 January 2019, 16:02

This Lady does not match other portraits of Catherine Parr, who has a distinctive slightly turned up nose like her brother. Unless there is evidence to suggest an alternative identification I believe this might be her sister Ann who married the Earl of Pembroke of Wilton. I believe there is a stained glass portrait of Ann at the Wilton Church. Often where there is confusion with old portraits the sitter gets confused with a sibling or close relative. I will try to get to Wilton to check the stained glass picture and see if it is from the 16th Century.