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Hans Holbein the Younger (1497/8-1543)
Edward, Prince of Wales (1537-1553) 1538
Black and red chalks with blue watercolour and black ink on pink prepared paper | 26.4 x 22.4 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 912200
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A portrait drawing of Edward, Prince of Wales, on pink prepared paper. The portrait is summarily drawn in black and red chalks with touches of blue watercolour and black ink. An eighteenth-century inscription (a copy of a mid-sixteenth-century original) at top left identifies the sitter as 'Edward Prince'.
Prince Edward was born to Henry VIII and Jane Seymour in October 1537. He succeeded his father as Edward VI in 1547. He owned the book of Holbein portrait drawings which included this sheet and that of his mother (RCIN 912267).
The drawing is a preparatory study for a painting in the National Gallery of Art, Washington (inv. no. 1937.1.64) which was presented to Henry VIII by Holbein on New Year's Day 1539.Provenance
Henry VIII; Edward VI, 1547; Henry FitzAlan, 12th Earl of Arundel; by whom bequeathed to John, Lord Lumley, 1580; by whom probably bequeathed to Henry, Prince of Wales, 1609, and thus inherited by Prince Charles (later Charles I), 1612; by whom exchanged with Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of Pembroke, 1627/8; by whom given to Thomas Howard, 14th Earl of Arundel; acquired by Charles II by 1675
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Medium and techniques
Black and red chalks with blue watercolour and black ink on pink prepared paper
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26.4 x 22.4 cm (sheet of paper)
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RL 12200
