Portrait of Henry VIII Portrait of Henry VIII Portrait of Henry VIII is a lost work by Hans Holbein the Younger depicting Henry VIII. It was destroyed by fire in 1698, but is still well known through many copies. It is one of the most iconic images of Henry and is one of the most famous portraits of any British monarch. It was originally created in 1536–1537 as part of a mural showing the Tudor dynasty at the Palace of Whitehall, London. Hans Holbein the Younger, originally from Germany, had been appointed the English King's Painter in 1536. The portrait was created to adorn
Henry Walton (American painter) Henry Walton (American painter) Henry Walton (1804–1865) was an American painter and lithographer active chiefly in Ithaca, New York and California. Walton was born in Saratoga Springs, New York in 1804, the son. of Judge Henry Walton and Mathilda (Cruger) Yates. He moved to Ithaca before 1836, where he is believed to have been working for a company republishing David Burr's 1829 "Atlas of New York State". He produced both portraits and landscapes including "View of Geneva" (1837), "Henry Clay" (1844), "Lithographic View of Jefferson" (1847) (Jefferson is now Watkins Glen), and oil paintings of "Addison" (1850) and "Painted Post"