2-645-742 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'La Reina Maria De Inglaterra', (Mary Tudor, Queen of England), 1554, (c1934) The Queen sits in a crimson velvet chair, holding the red rose of Tudor in hand she has a tense and somewhat stiff attitude. Mary I (1516-558) was Queen of England and Ireland from July 1553 until her death. Her executions of Protestants led to the posthumous sobriquet 'Bloody Mary'. Oil on canvas. Held in the Museo del Prado, Madrid. From Galerias De Europa: Museo Del Prado, by A. De Beruete y Moret & Augusto L. Mayer. [Editorial Labor, S.A., Barcelona, c1934]