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Lucas Horenbout was active in England where in 1525 he became the official portraitist to the king. This representation of Henry VIII at the age of thirty-five, in which the sitter is shown half-length in a medallion, is one of the oldest miniature portraits done in England. Among the thirty-three miniature portraits attributed to Horenbout, eight, all different, depict the sovereign, always in conformity with the same formula of the bust standing out against an azure ground, which has its source in Flemish and French manuscript paintings.
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