Henry VIII John Gay Signed lower left in pencil

Signed lower left in pencil 'G

Interior view of the Marine Society's office over the Royal Exchange

View of Fulham from the White Lion Inn

elderly woman attended by a forlorn foot boy in an elaborate coat watches a flirtation between a market woman and a soldier

Henry VIII John Gay Signed lower left in pencilHenry VIII, King of England from 1509, (1932). Henry (1491 1547) succeeded his father, Henry VII, in 1509. Obsessed with passing the throne on to a male heir, he had six wives in the course of his reign, none of whom provided him with a son who survived. In divorcing his first wife, Catherine of Aragon, in 1533, Henry severed the English church from Rome. With portraits of Henry's six wives; Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anne of