Henry VIII's Last Victim (57 page)

The title-page of Surrey’s innovative translation of Book IV of the
Aeneid
, published posthumously in 1554.

The many faces of the Poet Earl. Surrey sat for his portrait more times than any other Tudor courtier.

The sport of kings. Henry VIII jousting before Catherine of Aragon in 1511.

The Siege of Boulogne of 1544.

‘My foes they bray so loud, and eke threpe on so fast, Buckled to do me scathe, so is their malice bent.
...
Rein those unbridled tongues’ Break that conjured league!’
Surrey, in the controversial last portrait of him, stands alone against the combined might of …

… Henry VIII and the ‘conjured league’ Sirs William Paget, Thomas Wriothesley, Edward Seymour, John Dudley, Anthony Denny and Richard Southwell.

William Paget

Thomas Wriothesley

Edward Seymour

John Dudley

Anthony Denny