Artist: Mary Psalter - Title: Twelve year old Christ in the temple - Medium: Fine Art Giclee on Canvas - Image Size: Approximately 32 inches x 24.5 inches - Unframed on Unstretched Canvas - Biography: The Queen Mary Psalter is a fourteenth-century English psalter named after Mary I of England, who gained possession of it in 1553. The psalter is noted for its beauty and the lavishness of its illustration, and has been called "one of the most extensively illustrated psalters ever produced in Western Europe" and "one of the choicest treasures of the magnificent collection of illuminated MSS. in the British Museum".The psalter was perhaps produced c. 1310-1320 by one main scribe and, unusually for a work so heavily illuminated, a single artist,who is now known as the "Queen Mary Master". It was probably made in London, and possibly for Isabella of France, queen of Edward II of England, though there is no agreement on the matter.

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