Anne Boleyn (1501-1536) was Queen of England from 1533 to 1536 as the second wife of King Henry VIII. Two of the most well known portraits of Anne Boleyn, which are on display at the National Portrait Gallery, may not be her, scientists have concluded. Facial recognition experts have created a computer algorithm which maps the faces from portraits to find a match with other paintings.
They used a contemporaneous miniature of Anne Boleyn from the British Museum as a reference, as it is the only undisputed likeness of Henry VIII's second wife. After running the software, the experts said they could not be sure that the 'Anna Bolina' portrait, a late 16th century copy of a painting from 1533, which hangs in London's National Portrait Gallery, was the queen.
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