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I provide advice on many aspects of architectural colour
Here is one of my more unusual projects...
Patrick Baty Architectural Paint and
Colour
The King’s Beasts
A Recent Project
2009 The 500th
anniversaryof Henry VIII’s
accession to the throne
Patrick Baty was commissioned to
carry out research on the colour of King Henry’s
heraldic Beasts for Hampton Court
Palace
Beasts in Heraldry
Mythical creatures were often adopted as a personal device or
emblem
From earliest times each English monarch
has used beasts to symbolise their
descent and familial allegiances
Queen Jane Seymour
King Henry had a number of beasts
carved to celebrate his
marriage to Jane Seymour in 1536
These were found throughout the palace grounds
and twelve of them lined the Moat
Bridge
Hampton Court Palace
The remains of King Henry’s original beasts were destroyed in the
reign of King William III (1650-1702)
New ones were designed and carved in 1909-1910
Hampton Court PalaceThe Moat Beasts were reinstated in 1911
They were not painted – but what if they were?
Moat Beasts
The existing beasts on the
Moat Bridge are currently unpainted
The Crowned Lion of England
The Crowned Lion of England
He supports a shield bearing the impaled arms of Henry VIII and
Queen Jane
A golden lion has been the royal
beast of England since the early 12th
century
Royal Arms 1405 – 1603used by King Henry VIII
Queen Jane Seymour’s Arms
Impaled Arms
King Henry’s arms Queen Jane’s arms
The husband’s and wife’s arms are joined
Henry VIII’s Crowned Lion
I obtained much information from
hand-painted manuscripts of the 16th century
The Seymour Panther
The golden “flames” indicate
his fragrant breath
He bears the Seymour wings
on his shield
The Greyhound
A favourite Tudor beast
He bears the three lions of
England on his shield
Henry VII’s Standard
The Greyhound of Richmond with the red rose of Lancaster
The Yale
A Beaufort beast
He has the body of an antelope, a lion’s tail and
horns which can swivel round to counter attack
from all quarters
The Yale
The Duke of Somerset’s Yale
The arms are: France modern and England quarterly impaled
quarterly with
1) Howard; 2) Thomas of Brotherton; 3) Warenne and 4) Mowbray
The Tudor Dragon
Used by Henry VIII’s
grandfather as a
token of his supposed descent
from Cadwalade
r
King Cadwalader’s
Dragon
Semi-mythical king of
Gwynedd, North Wales
The Queen’s Unicorn
This beast supports Queen
Jane’s six-quartered shield
The Royal Dragon
This beast supports a
shield bearing France
modern and England quarterly
The Queen’s Lion
This beast supports a shield bearing Queen Jane’s badge
Jane Seymour’s badge
White Lions
...of March ...of Henry FitzRoy
...of Mowbray
Black Bull of Clarence
He supports a shield bearing the Tudor
Rose, which symbolised the union of the houses of York
and Lancaster
Green and white were the Tudor livery
colours
Black Bulls
The Queen’s Panther
He bears the impaled arms of Henry VIII
and Queen Jane
Heraldic Panther
How the Moat Beasts might look if painted
2009 promises to be a colourful year at
Hampton Court Palace
Acknowledgements:
College of ArmsHistoric Royal PalacesSam Styles – SJS PhotosMuseo Thyssen-Bornemisza, MadridKunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Gemäldegalerie
(The Baty Griffin)http://bit.ly/15eDOa