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1560 portrait by Hans Eworth. Anne Askew (sometimes spelled Ayscough or Ascue), married name Anne Kyme (1521 – 16 July 1546), [1] was an English writer, poet, and Protestant preacher who was condemned as a heretic during the reign of Henry VIII of England.
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Mary I by Hans Eworth, 1554. Hans Eworth (or Ewouts; c. 1520–1574) was a Flemish painter active in England in the mid-16th century. Along with other exiled Flemings, he made a career in Tudor London, painting allegorical images as well as portraits of the gentry and nobility. [1]
Anne was her sister's chief lady-in-waiting and the sisters were close. Anne was also part of the clique of Protestants who surrounded the new Queen. In 1546, fellow Protestant Anne Askew was arrested for heresy. Those who opposed the Queen tried to gain a confession from Askew that the Queen, her sister, and the other women were Protestants.
The throwback post includes a grainy black-and-white photo of a young King Charles and Princess Anne. Taken in 1956, the picture (photographed by Antony Armstrong-Jones) shows the royal siblings ...
Agnes' portrait shows that her hair was auborn coloured. [14] Her jewels include a brooch at her neck with two diamonds, a ruby, and a pendant pearl. A similar jewel appears in another portrait by Eworth, said be of Anne Askew. Between her hands a round or oval object may be case for a miniature portrait.
Portrait of Mary Boleyn, one of Henry VIII's mistresses. She was known to be very beautiful by both the English and French courts. The mistresses of Henry VIII included many notable women between 1509 and 1536.
Portraits in the Characters of the Muses in the Temple of Apollo by Richard Samuel, 1778, include Elizabeth Carter, Angelica Kauffman, Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Catharine Macaulay, Elizabeth Montagu, Elizabeth Griffith, Hannah More, Elizabeth Ann Sheridan and Charlotte Lennox. [1]