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Henry the Eighth and His Family (1545) – the man at the far right is the jester Will Somers, and it has been suggested that the woman at the far left is the jester Jane Foole. Sommers is believed to be portrayed in a painting of Henry VIII and family at the Palace of Whitehall. It was completed around 1544–45 by an unknown artist.
He may have been jester to Henry VIII, [2] [3] although this is doubted. It is probable that he became jester in the household of the Duke of Norfolk before Henry VIII's death; in Elizabeth's reign he was transferred to the court. That a man of education like Pace should have voluntarily assumed "the fool's coat" often excited hostile comment.
Henry shown reading Henry and his jester Will Somers. The Psalter of Henry VIII is a 16th-century illuminated psalter that belonged to Henry VIII of England. It is now in the British Library as MS Royal 2 A xvi. The king commissioned the book in the early 1540s from the French illuminator Jean Mallard, who had at one time worked for Francis I.
A famous portrait of King Henry VIII, long considered lost, has been found after an art historian spotted it in the background of a photo shared on social media.. The painting in question was once ...
The six-part series will see Mark Rylance return to front the show as Thomas Cromwell, principal adviser to England’s Henry VIII. Back in 2016, Rylance won the leading actor Bafta for his ...
An art historian has identified a missing portrait of King Henry VIII after spotting it on social media.. British fine art researcher Adam Busiakiewicz was idly scrolling on X when he was stopped ...
Jane was a well-liked jester at the court of Catherine Parr, where she is mentioned by name as "Jane Foole" in 1543. [2] Catherine Parr bought her a red petticoat, gowns, and kirtles. [ 7 ] She may have been depicted in the painting of Henry the Eighth and His Family (1545), in which the man on the far right is identified as her colleague ...
The Queen's Fool, novel by Philippa Gregory, centers around the life of a young "holy fool" named Hannah, who happens to work with and befriend William Sommers (Will), the former fool/jester of King Henry VIII. The Jester is a central character in many of the plays of Dario Fo. Rigoletto, Duke of Mantua's jester in Giuseppe Verdi's opera Rigoletto