Portrait of Katherine Parr, Queen of England (1512-1548) English
School, Late Sixteenth Century “As the famous rhyme suggests,
Katherine Parr’s record as the last of Henry VIII’s six wives
was unique. She survived.” Oil on panel 21¼ x 15¾ inches, 54 x
40 cm Possibly William Bryant, sale at Edward Foster’s, London,
15th May 1823 as ‘Holbein’ Archibald Alexander Leslie Melville,
13th Earl of Leven and 12th Earl of Melville by whom sold,
Robinson and Fisher, 29th November 1934 lot 107, as ‘Holbein’
Anon sale Christies London 9th June 1944, Lot 14 1967 J Gold
Coll. Anon Sale Sothebys London 11th July 1983 (lot 37) English
Private Collection Katherine Parr, by Susan E. James (London
1999) p 421 fig 30, as showing the Queen c. 1546; Ian Tyers,
Dendrochronoligical Survey, 2005; Inscribed at top, Catharina
Regina Uxor Henrici VIII As the famous rhyme suggests, Katherine
Parr’s record as the last of Henry VIII’s six wives was unique.
She survived. Though Anne of Cleves, the sad ‘Flanders Mare’
unable to arouse England