It’s time to talk about King Edward VI…

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Images (from Wikimedia Commons, unless otherwise stated):

Portrait of Edward VI as a Child by Hans Holbein the Younger (c.1538). Held by the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.

Portrait of Edward VI of England from the circle of William Scrots (c.1550). Held in an unknown private collection.

Artist’s impression of Prince Edward being carried to his christening. From the College of Arms.

Artist’s interpretation of The Pilgrimage of Grace in 1536 by Fred Kirk Shaw (1913). Held by the Lancashire City and Maritime Museum.

Portrait of Jane Seymour by Hans Holbein the Younger (c.1536 –1537). Held by the Kunsthistorisches Museum.

Portrait of Edward VI, when Duke of Cornwall from the workshop of Hans Holbein the Younger (c.1545, reworked c.1547). Held by the The Metropolitcan Museum of Art.

Portrait of Katherine Parr by Unknown artist (late 16th century). Held by the National Portrait Gallery.

A Latin letter of Edward, the future King Edward VI of England, to his tutor Richard Cox (autograph copy in a book) (1546). London, British Library, Harley 5087, fol. 2r.

Edward VI of England in the Queen's Drawing Room, Windsor Castle attributed to William Scrots (c.1546). Scanned from Hearn, Karen, ed. Dynasties: Painting in Tudor and Jacobean England 15301630. New York: Rizzoli, 1995. ISBN 084781940X.

King Edward VI and the Pope by an unknown artist (c.1575). Held by the National Portrait Gallery.

Portrait of Edward Seymour by unknown artist (16th century). Held in the collection of Marquess of Bath, Longleat House, Wiltshire.

Portrait of Thomas Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Sudeley by Nicolas Denizot (c.15471549). Held by the National Maritime Museum.

Portrait of John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland by an unknown artist of the English school (c.1605–1608). On show at Knole, Kent (National Trust collections, NT 129763).

Edward VI's "devise for the succession" (c. 15521553), written in his own hand. (Inner Temple, Petyt MS 538, vol. 47 fo. 317.)


Quoted texts:

John Gough Nichols, Literary Remains of King Edward the Sixth. United Kingdom, J. B. Nichols and sons, 1857.

Diary of King Edward the Sixth

Simon Renard to the Emperor, 21st March 1551, from https://www.britishhistory.ac.uk/cal...

Dale Hoak, ODNB entry on King Edward VI

Also consulted, were:

Other relevant entries from The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Online.

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