I am so thrilled to have been part of Emma Rutherford’s research team to reidentify this stunning portrait as Princess Mary, the future Queen Mary I. Displayed at Compton Verney, we argue that it was painted by Susannah Horenbout in c.1546 and is a rare example of her work. #Tudor #ArtHistory #MaryI - ThreadSky

drowenemmerson.bsky.social • 107 days ago

I am so thrilled to have been part of Emma Rutherford’s research team to reidentify this stunning portrait as Princess Mary, the future Queen Mary I. Displayed at Compton Verney, we argue that it was painted by Susannah Horenbout in c.1546 and is a rare example of her work. #Tudor #ArtHistory #MaryI

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drmaureenwright.bsky.social•107 days ago

You get to see the greatest things!

drowenemmerson.bsky.social•107 days ago

I really am blessed and I promise that I don't take it for granted. Every day when I arrive at work it is like Christmas.

drmaureenwright.bsky.social•107 days ago

I'd love to get down to Hever & meet you. I've known Tracy B for about 20 years. It's been so wonderful to watch her career go from strength to strength!

drowenemmerson.bsky.social•107 days ago

Oh, we must make this happen. I would love nothing more. She is just remarkable, isn't she? I can feel a group visit to Hever on the horizon!

drmaureenwright.bsky.social•107 days ago

That would be wonderful. T has a passion for my meringues!

drowenemmerson.bsky.social•107 days ago

I know that I will share that passion - I'm hopelessly devoted to meringues!

healthhiccups.bsky.social•106 days ago

This is amazing (and I'm SO glad you're here, big fan). It's quite a modern-looking face? You could AI just change the hair/outfit and she wouldn't look out of place walking down the street now (sorry your majesty).

katieem.bsky.social•106 days ago

I've loved seeing all the chat and excitement about this discovery. Please please please can you tell us more about the woman who painted it. Susannah Horenbout. I imagine she would have been one of the few 16thC female painters.

aeb1.bsky.social•107 days ago

Amazing. Thanks for sharing. Imagine many women artists hidden in time.

ksgtho.bsky.social•106 days ago

Incredible work on this! Absolutely fascinating and wonderful to see something that was hidden, brought back into the light

pintsizedfarmer.bsky.social•106 days ago

So glad to find you on here - I need my regular fix of Tudor history!

nuitsdeyoung.bsky.social•106 days ago

It also strongly resembles the rather damaged wooden and stucco funerary effigy at Westminster Abbey. The pendant also, as you say, looks like the one in the other portrait.

drowenemmerson.bsky.social•107 days ago

Do check out the full article in today’s Observer by the brilliant Richard Brooks, and make sure to visit Emma’s stunning exhibition, ‘The Reflected Self’, where you can see Susannah’s portrait of Mary for yourself! https://www.comptonverney.org.uk/whats-on/the-reflected-self/

elizabethanhistory.bsky.social•107 days ago

That’s so exciting!!

smolderingmulch.bsky.social•106 days ago

Faces are strange things, it's difficult to imagine from that portrait someone who became known as bloody Mary for her persecution of Protestants.

artherstory.bsky.social•102 days ago

Such an amazing discovery!

Learn more about the C16th miniaturist in this #ArtHerstory guest post:

Susanna Horenbout, Courtier and Artist
by Kathleen E. Kennedy / @themedievaldrk.bsky.social

https://artherstory.net/susanna-horenbout-courtier-and-artist/

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