Comments on: Mary Boleyn’s portrait…? UPDATE http://www.anne-boleyn.com/eng/mary-boleyns-portrait-update/ Thu, 28 Jun 2012 10:17:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Sylwia http://www.anne-boleyn.com/eng/mary-boleyns-portrait-update/#comment-148 Sylwia Wed, 07 Mar 2012 17:55:01 +0000 http://www.anne-boleyn.com/eng/?p=49#comment-148 Hello Ann! Thank you for your informative comment. 'Mary Boley' portrait from Hever appears in many books, and this copy from Holyrood palace was unknown to me until I found this picture. I still don't know who might it be - is it really Mary? If it was inscribed as her, than perhaps it is really her? Thank you for stopping by at my website :-) Hello Ann! Thank you for your informative comment. ‘Mary Boley’ portrait from Hever appears in many books, and this copy from Holyrood palace was unknown to me until I found this picture. I still don’t know who might it be – is it really Mary? If it was inscribed as her, than perhaps it is really her? Thank you for stopping by at my website :-)

]]> By: Ann Etheridge http://www.anne-boleyn.com/eng/mary-boleyns-portrait-update/#comment-147 Ann Etheridge Wed, 07 Mar 2012 13:59:22 +0000 http://www.anne-boleyn.com/eng/?p=49#comment-147 As far as I know, I am the person who discovered that this copy of the better known painting of Mary which hangs at Hever. I was touring Holyrood Palace in 2009 and saw it hanging in one of the rooms there, identified as "unknown woman." When I returned home, I searched the online database of the royal collection and found a small jpg of it, labeled again as "unknown woman." I placed a copy of that jpeg online here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/60861613@N00/3640331106/in/set-72157615695933178, labeled as Mary Boleyn, as it is clearly a second copy of the portrait at Hever. I searched for the image as Mary Boleyn online extensively before I did this and it was not on the Internet under her name. Since I have placed it online identified as Mary, it has been appearing in more and more locations. My personal view is that this is indeed Mary, and is probably a pendent to the known portrait of her husband, Henry Carey, as both this second image and the one of Carey are set done in vignette style and are facing inward at each other. The vingette was not preserved in the Hever Mary, but is preserved in the Holyrood copy. As far as I know, I am the person who discovered that this copy of the better known painting of Mary which hangs at Hever. I was touring Holyrood Palace in 2009 and saw it hanging in one of the rooms there, identified as “unknown woman.” When I returned home, I searched the online database of the royal collection and found a small jpg of it, labeled again as “unknown woman.” I placed a copy of that jpeg online here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/60861613@N00/3640331106/in/set-72157615695933178, labeled as Mary Boleyn, as it is clearly a second copy of the portrait at Hever. I searched for the image as Mary Boleyn online extensively before I did this and it was not on the Internet under her name.

Since I have placed it online identified as Mary, it has been appearing in more and more locations. My personal view is that this is indeed Mary, and is probably a pendent to the known portrait of her husband, Henry Carey, as both this second image and the one of Carey are set done in vignette style and are facing inward at each other. The vingette was not preserved in the Hever Mary, but is preserved in the Holyrood copy.

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