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The Portrait in Britain: The Early Tudors – GI 25 095

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30 September 2025 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm BST

Tutor: Hilary Underwood BA MPhil

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Date: 30 September 2025
Time:
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Length of Course:
5 Tuesdays
Reference Code:
GI 25 095
Location:
Ward Street
Guildford, Surrey GU1 4LH

Overview

Portraiture is an essential British art form. Begin a journey through its history with its Medieval origins (including Richard II in the Wilton Diptych). Then explore its first flowering under the early Tudors, inspired by mainly foreign artists. They include the Italian Torrigiano, the German-born Holbein the Younger and the Flemings Hans Eworth and the female miniaturist Levina Teerlinc.

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Hans Holbein the Younger, Portrait of Henry VIII of England, 1540. Wikimedia Commons.

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