The English Art of the 16 century.

-the painters and limners engaged by the monarchs of England's Tudor dynasty and their

courtiers between 1485 and 1603, from the reign of Henry VII to the death of Elizabeth I.

-the portrait was the most important form of painting for all the artists of the Tudor court, and the only one to have survived in any numbers.

- Hans Holbein the Younger-Lucas Horenbout -Hans Eworth-Isaac Oliver -George Gower-Nicholas Hilliard

Hans Holbein the Younger Portrait of Henry VIII Portrait of Edward VI as a Child

Lucas Horenbout Hans Holbein the Younger

Portrait miniature of Henry VIII Catherine of Aragon with a monkey

Hans Eworth

Mary I Elizabeth I and the Three Goddesses

Isaac OliverThe Rainbow Portrait, an image of Elizabeth I Charles I as Prince of as the "Queen of Love and Beauty“ Wales

George Gower

The Armada portrait of Elizabeth I Elizabeth Knollys