A rare portrait of Katherine Parr is about to be sold in one of the most anticipated auctions of the year.
Sotheby’s will sell the work, believed to be the only contemporary rendering of the queen, online on July 5th 2023.
The painting is thought to be the work of Master John, an artist recorded in the Privy Purse expenses of the time.
Courtesy of Sotheby’s
Katherine Parr…
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