William Scrots
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William Scrots was a painter of the Tudor court and an exponent of the Mannerist style of painting in the Netherlands.
Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, 1546. Attributed to William Scrots.
Edward VI, attributed to Scrots, Hampton Court.
Queen Katherine Parr, c. 1545. The original is in the National Portrait Gallery, London, with a copy in the collection of Trinity College, Cambridge.
Edward VI, c. 1550
Edward VI
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Edward VI was King of England and Ireland from 28 January 1547 until his death in 1553. He was crowned on 20 February 1547 at the age of nine. The only surviving son of Henry VIII by his third wife, J
William Scrots
…substantial annual salary of £62 10s, over twice as much as Holbein's thirty pounds a year. He continued in this role during the reign of the boy king Edward VI. His salary was stopped on Edward's death in 1553, after which it is not known what became of him, though it is presumed he left England. Little more…
Portrait c. 1550
Edward in 1538, by Hans Holbein the Younger. He holds a golden rattle that resembles a sceptre; and the Latin inscription urges him to equal or surpass his father.
Edward as Prince of Wales, 1546. He wears the Prince of Wales's feathers and crown on the pendant jewel. Attributed to William Scrots. Royal Collection, Windsor Castle
The badge of Prince Edward, from John Leland's Genethliacon illustrissimi Eaduerdi principis Cambriae (1543)