The Lost Portrait of Henry VIII
October 27 @ 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
AGM followed by
A talk by Adam Busiakiewicz
| In the 1590s Ralph Sheldon commissioned a set of portraits of English monarchs and other notables for his home Weston Hall in Long Compton.
The house is now gone and the paintings were sold at Christies in 1791 and dispersed. So how did the painting of Henry VIII come to be in Shire Hall in Warwick, its provenance as one of the supposedly lost Sheldon portraits unknown, and its significance unrecognised? Acclaimed art historian, Adam Busiakiewicz, will tell the extraordinary story of how he discovered the painting and proved his theory that it was a lost Sheldon portrait. A cash bar and nibbles will be available. The talk will follow the AGM at around 7:45. I you only want to come for the talk you are welcome to arrive for 7:45 |