2-703-434 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Portrait of a Man in Red', c1530-1550, (1948). The painting was sold to Charles II in 1660 as a portrait of the young Henry VIII by Holbein. First recorded in the Royal Collection c1666-1667, it was unattributed and described as 'A young man in a red garment, red bonnet and white feather with his hand on his sworde and a dagger hanging by'. Painting in the Royal Collection at Hampton Court Palace, London. From "English Fashion", by Alison Settle. [Collins, London, 1948]