 |  | | | Vanora Bennett: Portrait of an unknown woman | 22 September 2006 | | |
Hans Holbein has been described as the first great British artist. He came to England during the reign of King Henry VIII under the patronage of Sir Thomas More. Holbein painted two rather different portraits of his patron's family, five years apart.
In her new novel, Portrait of an Unknown Woman, Vanora Bennett attempts to piece together what changed for the family in those intervening years. She invents a tangled love story which mirrors the turbulence of the period.
Martha talks to author Vanora Bennett about Holbein, fiction and the More family.
Portrait of an Unknown Woman is published by Harper Collins, ISBN 0-00-722492-3 | |
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