<artwork>

 <objecttitle>&lt;i&gt;'A Young Boy Holding a Book with Flowers'
 i&gt;</objecttitle>
 <artistname>Attributed to The Master of the Countess of
 Warwick</artistname>
 <shortdescription>Oil on panel 19 x 14 1/4 in (48 x 36
 cm)&lt;br&gt;Inscribed upper left i&gt;Ao DNI i and upper right
 i&gt;1576 i&gt;</shortdescription>
 <longdescription>Just as so many sixteenth century portraits of
 unknown ladies, in elaborated costume, have been rather
 optimistically ‘idenitified’ as Elizabeth I, so to have portraits
 of unknown youths likewise fallen victim to Victorian
 romanticism, and,as in this instance, been titled Edward VI. This
 picture typifies such wishful thinking, when it appeared in the
 1880’s exhibition catalogued as the young prince. Likeness apart,
 the date on this picture of 1567, and the death of Edward in
 1553, some fourteen years earlier, should have been enough to