Other Sheldon tapestries if you're interested, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Sheldon_Portrait...
Missing Henry VIII portrait found after random X post
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Twitter was renamed to X after being purchased by a new owner.
Once a thing has an established name, it's hard for people to call it something else.
It's like how "Candlestick Park" was once "3Com Park", but most people don't use that name.
Re: Missing Henry VIII portrait found after random X post
#13I think "Missing" is a pretty poor choice of word for this; "Presumed lost to history" would better explain what's happened - Which is both incredible and terribly dull at the same time! Somebody connected the dots on the provenance of a quite old painting that was venerated, but perhaps not as much as it should have been, not far from it's last known location - At least in distance, if not time. Great detective work…
I dont know if it is fair to assume nobody was looking for it or wondering where it was.
It is not uncommon in the art world for paintings to go missing, only to be found again. There are people that actively hunt for them, and don't just presume they are lost.
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#14When you're an expert at something and you spend all your days looking at these things, you can pick out remarkable details from nothing. Any regular person looking at the original photo (below) would have seen nothing!
https://x.com/Warkslieutenant/status/1808884139585610231/pho...
(it's the picture with the curved frame on the left)
Re: Missing Henry VIII portrait found after random X post
#15I think "Missing" is a pretty poor choice of word for this; "Presumed lost to history" would better explain what's happened - Which is both incredible and terribly dull at the same time! Somebody connected the dots on the provenance of a quite old painting that was venerated, but perhaps not as much as it should have been, not far from it's last known location - At least in distance, if not time. Great detective work…
edit I was wrong, in my defense I went down a Wikipedia rabbit hole of related topics.
Re: Missing Henry VIII portrait found after random X post
#16I think "Missing" is a pretty poor choice of word for this; "Presumed lost to history" would better explain what's happened - Which is both incredible and terribly dull at the same time! Somebody connected the dots on the provenance of a quite old painting that was venerated, but perhaps not as much as it should have been, not far from it's last known location - At least in distance, if not time. Great detective work…
I always read stuff like this as ‘someone hung it up at home and didn’t want random people bothering them about how it should be in a museum instead’. And/or stole it. Hah.
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#17Reminds me of the "lost" painting that was rediscovered via the movie Stuart Little:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_Little_(film)#Lost_pain...
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#18Reminds me of the "lost" painting that was rediscovered via the movie Stuart Little : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_Little_(film)#Lost_pain...
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#19I think "Missing" is a pretty poor choice of word for this; "Presumed lost to history" would better explain what's happened - Which is both incredible and terribly dull at the same time! Somebody connected the dots on the provenance of a quite old painting that was venerated, but perhaps not as much as it should have been, not far from it's last known location - At least in distance, if not time. Great detective work…
edit I was wrong, in my defense I went down a Wikipedia rabbit hole of related topics.
Is it? It was made for a tapestry maker but the wikipedia pages and a close look at them say they're paintings. Oil on panel like a lot of other paintings of the period. I think you're misreading "for tapestry maker Ralph Sheldon", he didn't paint them and the artist is not officially known.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Henry_VIII_(1491%E2%...
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Re: Missing Henry VIII portrait found after random X post
#20Other Sheldon tapestries if you're interested, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Sheldon_Portrait...
They are paintings not tapestries. Sheldon made tapestries but these were painting for him not made by him. The description of all of those in that page are either sketches or oil on panel paintings.