List of artists at Hampton Court Palace
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Artworks at Hampton Court Palace
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Apart from the paintings some of the rarest items on display are the tapesteries, these include:
Hampton Court Palace
Hampton Court Palace is a royal palace in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, Greater London; it has not been inhabited by the British royal family since the 18th century. The palace is located south west of Charing Cross and upstream of Central London on the River Thames...
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- AnonymousAnonymous workAnonymous works are works, such as art or literature, that have an anonymous, undisclosed, or unknown creator or author. In the United States it is legally defined as "a work on the copies or phonorecords of which no natural person is identified as author."...
- Field of Cloth of Gold c. 1545. - Jacopo BassanoJacopo BassanoJacopo Bassano , known also as Jacopo dal Ponte, was an Italian painter who was born and died in Bassano del Grappa near Venice, from which he adopted the name.- Life :...
- The Adoration of the Shepards' c. 1544-45. - Agnolo Bronzino (attributed) - Portrait of a Lady in Green c. 1530-32.
- Pieter Bruegel the Elder - The Massacre of the Innocents 1565-7.
- Marcus Gheeraerts the YoungerMarcus Gheeraerts the YoungerMarcus Gheeraerts was an artist of the Tudor court, described as "the most important artist of quality to work in England in large-scale between Eworth and Van Dyck" He was brought to England as a child by his father Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder, also a painter...
- Portrait of a Woman c. 1590-1600. - Sir Godfrey KnellerGodfrey KnellerSir Godfrey Kneller, 1st Baronet was the leading portrait painter in England during the late 17th and early 18th centuries, and was court painter to British monarchs from Charles II to George I...
- William III on Horseback, 1701; Hampton Court BeautiesHampton Court BeautiesThe Hampton Court Beauties are a series of portraits by Sir Godfrey Kneller, commissioned by Queen Mary II of England depicting the most glamorous ladies from the court of William III. They adorn the state rooms of King William III at Hampton Court Palace...
, 1690s. - Sir Peter LelyPeter LelySir Peter Lely was a painter of Dutch origin, whose career was nearly all spent in England, where he became the dominant portrait painter to the court.-Life:...
- Windsor BeautiesWindsor BeautiesThe Windsor beauties are a famous collection of paintings by Sir Peter Lely, painted in the early to mid 1660s.They were originally housed in the Queen's bedchamber in Windsor Castle...
, 1660s. - Lorenzo LottoLorenzo LottoLorenzo Lotto was a Northern Italian painter draughtsman and illustrator, traditionally placed in the Venetian school. He painted mainly altarpieces, religious subjects and portraits...
- Portrait of Andrea Odoni c. 1525. - Daniel Mytens - Charles I & Henrietta Maria c. 1630-32.
- RaphaelRaphaelRaffaello Sanzio da Urbino , better known simply as Raphael, was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. His work is admired for its clarity of form and ease of composition and for its visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur...
- Self Portrait c. 1506-7. - William ScrotsWilliam ScrotsWilliam Scrots was a painter of the Tudor court and an exponent of the Mannerist style of painting in the Netherlands. He is first heard of when appointed a court painter to Mary of Habsburg, Regent of the Netherlands, in 1537...
- Edward VI, c. 1550 - Girolamo da TrevisoGirolamo da TrevisoGirolamo da Treviso , also known as Girolamo di Tommaso da Treviso the Younger and Girolamo Trevigi, was an Italian Renaissance painter. Born in Treviso, he might have been a pupil of Pier Maria Pennacchi...
- The Four Evangelists Stoning the Pope early 16th century. - The Allegory of the Tudor Succession.
- The Family of Henry VIII.
Apart from the paintings some of the rarest items on display are the tapesteries, these include:
- The Story of Abraham - Flemish, set of 10 tapestries commissioned by Henry VIII in the early 1540s, 6 of which are displayed in the Great Hall.
- Conflict of Virtues and Vice - Flemish, c1500, probably bought by Cardinal Wolsey in 1522.
- The Story of Alexander the Great - Brussels, late 17th century, in the Queen's Gallery.
- The Labours of Hercules & The Triumph of Bacchus - Brussels, purchased by Henry VIII in the 1540s, in the King's Presence Chamber.