2-693-920 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Jane Seymour', 1536-1537, (1909). Jane Seymour (1509-1537), the third wife of King Henry VIII, was queen for less than two years. She died of puerperal fever, twelve days after giving birth to Henry's longed-for son, who later became Edward VI. Painting in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna. From Holbein - Masterpieces in Colour, by S. L. Bensusan. [T. C. & E. C. Jack, Frederick A. Stokes Co., London & New York, 1909]