Richard's portrait

I think it is pretty well accepted that there are no portraits of
Richard "from life" and that the portraits we have were painted
after Richard was dead. If I remember an earlier thread correctly,
that is why the NPG portrait was placed in the gallery with the
Tudors - even though the Yorkist Kings were definitely NOT Tudors,
the surviving paintings are from the Tudor reigns. Since the
paintings dated from the Tudor times, they were grouped with the
Tudor portraits. I believe the one of Edward IV is in there too!

There is no reason to suspect this portrait on e-bay is not a 16th
century work. It never claimed to be a portrait painted when
Richard was alive.

Janet

At 03:49 PM 12/2/02 -0000, Janet wrote:
> I think it is pretty well accepted that there are no portraits of
>Richard "from life" and that the portraits we have were painted
>after Richard was dead.

This was certainly the thinking at the time of the NPG exhibition in the
Seventies.

However, didn't some group of art historians recently decide that the
Society of Antiquaries portrait on the richardiii.net homepage may either
have been from life or be a copy of one painted shortly after the death of
Anne Neville to help "shop" Richard as a potential bridegroom around the
courts of Europe?



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Potential bridegroom?!

OK, folks, I'm taking a poll. Who would want to marry
that face?

(ROFLROFLROFL....)

Particularly the Italian one.

Choking some more.... Ha, ha, ha, ha!

Dora

--- Laura Blanchard <lblanchard@...> wrote:
> At 03:49 PM 12/2/02 -0000, Janet wrote:
> > I think it is pretty well accepted that there
> are no portraits of
> >Richard "from life" and that the portraits we have
> were painted
> >after Richard was dead.
>
> This was certainly the thinking at the time of the
> NPG exhibition in the
> Seventies.
>
> However, didn't some group of art historians
> recently decide that the
> Society of Antiquaries portrait on the
> richardiii.net homepage may either
> have been from life or be a copy of one painted
> shortly after the death of
> Anne Neville to help "shop" Richard as a potential
> bridegroom around the
> courts of Europe?
>
>
>
> --
> Laura Blanchard
> lblancha@... (Philadelphia Area
> Consortium of Special
> Collections Libraries
> lblanchard@... (all other mail)
> Home office: 215-985-1445 voice, -1446 fax
> http://pobox.upenn.edu/~lblancha
>
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I have just been sent a review copy of a new book about Market Bosworth and
its environs.

Unlike many local history books, this one is very much a coffee-table book.
The compilers have selected high quality photographs, watercolors, and
other works of art to illustrate themes of history, community, buildings,
industry, etc.

The Battlefield is mentioned, of course, as is the Richard III Society,
which get an entire two-page spread to itself -- text on the left,
recounting in moving terms the Society's annual rite of pilgrimage to the
Church of St. James, Sutton Cheney, and on the right possibly the most
dramatic photo of the Leicester statue I've ever seen. There's a page
devoted to the Rev. Teddy Boston and his Cadeby parish, detailing his
connection to the Rev. William Awdrey and, of course, his love of steam.
Many of the other churches in the neighborhood are also represented --
Stoke Golding, Shenton, and of course the churches of Market Bosworth itself.

To order it in the United States, it's fairly pricey, although we will be
putting information on ordering on our website. This is because it is A
Book of Substance and costs the earth to ship. It's available for a much
more reasonable sum (25 pounds) at the Battlefield Centre and area bookshops.

I will be reviewing it for our website and for our American Branch
publication, The Ricardian Register. My initial reaction to it, though, was
-- wow! I must make sure to spend a month in the area. My advice to U.S.
Ricardians is to bribe next year's crop of vacationers to bring an extra
home in their suitcase.

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It has just been pointed out to me that I neglected a few details -- title,
author, ISBN number. They are:

Title: From an Open Wooded Hilltop

photography by John Oakley
written and compiled by Allan Bamford, Eric Tomlinson, Glynnis Oakley, and
John Oakley.

ISBN 0 9529639 1 4 (standard edition)
0 9529639 0 0 (special limited edition)
>I have just been sent a review copy of a new book about Market Bosworth and
>its environs.
>
>Unlike many local history books, this one is very much a coffee-table book.
>The compilers have selected high quality photographs, watercolors, and
>other works of art to illustrate themes of history, community, buildings,
>industry, etc.
>
>The Battlefield is mentioned, of course, as is the Richard III Society,
>which get an entire two-page spread to itself -- text on the left,
>recounting in moving terms the Society's annual rite of pilgrimage to the
>Church of St. James, Sutton Cheney, and on the right possibly the most
>dramatic photo of the Leicester statue I've ever seen. There's a page
>devoted to the Rev. Teddy Boston and his Cadeby parish, detailing his
>connection to the Rev. William Awdrey and, of course, his love of steam.
>Many of the other churches in the neighborhood are also represented --
>Stoke Golding, Shenton, and of course the churches of Market Bosworth itself.
>
>To order it in the United States, it's fairly pricey, although we will be
>putting information on ordering on our website. This is because it is A
>Book of Substance and costs the earth to ship. It's available for a much
>more reasonable sum (25 pounds) at the Battlefield Centre and area bookshops.
>
>I will be reviewing it for our website and for our American Branch
>publication, The Ricardian Register. My initial reaction to it, though, was
>-- wow! I must make sure to spend a month in the area. My advice to U.S.
>Ricardians is to bribe next year's crop of vacationers to bring an extra
>home in their suitcase.
>
>--
>Laura Blanchard
>lblancha@... (Philadelphia Area Consortium of Special
>Collections Libraries
>lblanchard@... (all other mail)
>Home office: 215-985-1445 voice, -1446 fax
>http://pobox.upenn.edu/~lblancha
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