2-705-200 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Queen Jane Seymour', 1536, (early-mid 19th century). Portrait of Jane Seymour, third wife and Queen of Henry VIII of England. Jane Seymour (c1509-1537) married Henry the day after the execution of the king's scond wife, Anne Boleyn. She was queen for less than two years, dying of puerperal fever, twelve days after giving birth to Henry's longed-for son, who later became Edward VI. Engraving after a painting made in 1536, in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. [The London Printing and Publishing Company, London]