Patrick Baty

Architectural Paint and Colour

I provide advice on many aspects of

architectural colour

Here is one of my more unusual projects...

The King’s Beasts

A Recent Project
 2009
The 500th anniversary
of 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 Palace
The Moat Beasts were reinstated in 1911

They were not painted – but what if they were?

Moat Beasts
The Crowned Lion
of England

The existing beasts

on the Moat Bridge
are currently
unpainted
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 – 1603
used 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

 I obtained much
information from
hand-painted
manuscripts of the
16th century

Henry VIII’s Crowned Lion

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
Cadwalader
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
Jane Seymour’s badge

This beast
supports a shield
bearing Queen
Jane’s badge
 White Lions

...of March ...of Mowbray ...of Henry FitzRoy

 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
 (The Baty Griffin)
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Acknowledgements:

College of Arms
Historic Royal Palaces
Sam Styles – SJS Photos
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Gemäldegalerie