Henry VIII
  137mm (5.5") high x 74mm (3") wide
 

HENRY VIII
King of England 1504-1603

This sculpture is based on the famous portrait by Hans Holbein the Younger, and shows Henry VIII, the Great King, in portly middle age as he leaves his handsome and vigorous youth behind him. With increasing ill humour the debauched and diseased tyrant took to stamping his authority on church and state. This lover of art, music, culture and women looted the monasteries and exchequer to finance his passion for senseless wars, elaborate costume and an over-rich diet. "Good King Hal" has come to embody all that was truly great about "Merrye Englande": by the time he met his end he had put to death some 50,000 of his loyal subjects, including two of his six wives. The Magnificent Monarch showed his base nature with consummate ease

Hans Holbein drew with lifelike accuracy many of the King's Court; the very people who were promoted through the ranks to achieve high office, and subsequent decapitation. Holbein himself survived the rigours of the Royal household to die of natural causes- of The Black Death in 1543.

 

 These castings are designed, sculpted and manufactured in England, using resin-bonded marble, bronze and Cotswold stone. Modern moulding techniques faithfully reproduce the intricate and painstaking work of the sculptor whilst giving the appearance of real carved stone or sculpted terracotta. The resin sculptures are weatherproof, the plaques having a hole drilled in the back for easy hanging