King Edward VI and the Pope, by unknown artist. See source website for additional information.

This set of images was gathered by User:Dcoetzee from the National Portrait Gallery, London website using a special tool. All images in this batch are listed as "unknown author" by the NPG, who is diligent in researching authors, and was bought by them in 1960 according to the link below.

There is a book about this painting: Margaret Aston's The King's Bedpost (1994). The author reports (p. 208) that "Edward VI. and his Council" first appeared in Christie's sale of 20 March 1874. It belonged to Thomas Green, Esq., of Ipswitch and Upper Wimpole Street (Thomas Green III). In 1856 the Suffolk Chronicle described the colletion to which the painting belonged as "by far the most valuable collection of paintings in Ipswitch". In 1830 the collection was in Brook Street, Ipswitch. Sarah An Birkett (since long in the service of the Green family and Thomas Green III's sometime nurse) took care of the collection. In 1843 it moved to another location. Margaret Aston: "What happened to is between then and the sale of 1874 is obscure." As John Everett Millais alluded to the painting before 1850 in his Carpenter's Shop and Henry Holiday alluded to it before 1876 in an illustration to Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark, both artists must have known that painting well (see https://www.flickr.com/photos/bonnetmaker/7063656001/).