An art historian has identified a missing portrait of King Henry VIII after spotting it on social media.
An art historian has identified a missing portrait of King Henry VIII after spotting it on social media.
It showed a gathering at a reception in Warwick's Shire Hall, where Warwickshire County Council is based.His focus was on the background where, hanging on a wall, was what he suspected was a missing portrait of the Tudor monarch Henry VIII. According to Busiakiewicz, Ralph Sheldon commissioned the pictures – which were mostly of kings, queens and "significant contemporary international figures" – to hang in his home, Weston House in Warwickshire.The reason they had arched tops was because they "were once incorporated into an architectural frieze of the Long Gallery at Weston," Busiakiewicz said.
The series of portraits was later dispersed at auction and "the majority remain untraced to this day," according to Busiakiewicz. "Social media is a crazy thing," Busiakiewicz told CNN, "because some people use it to watch cat videos and follow what's going on in the world, and then people like me just look at what people have hanging on their walls."
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