Kettle, Alice 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2625-9902
(2022)
The Queens of Somerset House.
Somerset house, London; London Art Fair, Candida Stevens Gallery, 23 February 2022 - 27 February 2022.
Abstract
A series inspired by the history of Somerset House and the Queens who resided there when it was a palace, from the mid 16th Century to the beginning of the 18th Century. The Queens included Elizabeth I (reign 1558 – 1603) daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, who establishment the English Protestant church and is sometimes referred to as the Virgin Queen. Anne of Denmark (1574- 1619) wife of James I who oversaw the terracing of the gardens and introduction of the orangery. Henrietta Maria of France (1609-1669) wife of Charles I, who although modest externally, opened the most elaborate Roman Catholic chapel in a particularly grand ceremony in 1636. Catherine of Braganza (1638-1705) wife of Charles II, who commissioned a refurbishment by Christopher Wren and opened the River Terrace to the public, then painted by Canaletto twice in c1750
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