Levina Teerlinc has become a forgotten artist of the Tudor court ... Even if she bypassed the societal scorn for women painting portraits with her miniatures, it likely would have affected ...

Life as a woman in the court of Henry VIII was a high-stakes game of survival. As the final instalment of Hilary Mantel’s Tudor trilogy comes to BBC One, Katie Rosseinsky speaks to the performers who ...

But that’s not to say that Mantel rendered these Tudor women as feeble pawns — she was far too deft ... been seen as the “big ...

This portrait of Queen Elizabeth I is by an unknown English artist in around 1588 The National Portrait Gallery is to send some of its best pieces of Tudor art out on loan together, for the first ...

Hooked tags have "baffled the experts" for years, said Dr Geake, because there is little evidence of them in use in Tudor portraits. "There is a Holbein watercolour drawing of an English woman in ...