# Effigy of Henry VII \(detail\) [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [TORRIGIANO, Pietro]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Plaster cast painted with restored gilding ## Commentary This is a plaster cast of the tomb effigy of Henry VII \(1457-1509\), after the original in gilt bronze in Henry VII's Chapel, Westminster Abbey, completed in 1517. The bronze effigy of Henry VII lies next to that of his Queen, Elizabeth of York, at the centre of the chapel which bears his name, at the extreme east end of the Abbey. Torrigiano was a Florentine sculptor, who had worked alongside Michelangelo in Rome. He worked in the Netherlands, and then spent some years in Britain, working for the Tudor court, notably in terracotta. He was subsequently active in Spain, where he was to die in 1528. The plaster cast was almost certainly made in London in the 1850s. ## Related artworks - [Bishop John Fisher]() - [Bishop John Fisher]() - [Bust of Christ]() - [Bust of Santa Fina]() - [Bust of Sir Gilbert Talbot]() - [Effigy of Henry VII]() - [Head of Christ]() - [Monument to Henry VII \(detail\)]() - [Monument to Henry VII \(detail\)]() - [Monument to Henry VII \(detail\)]() - [Monument to Henry VII]() - [Penitent St Jerome]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()