Portrait of Sir Thomas More

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Portrait of Sir Thomas More
ArtistHans Holbein the Younger
Year1527
TypeOil on oak
Dimensions74.2 cm × 59 cm (29.2 in × 23 in)
LocationFrick Collection, New York
Detail of Tudor rose on the Collar of Esses livery chain

Portrait of Sir Thomas More is an oak

printmaker Hans Holbein the Younger, now in the Frick Collection
in New York.

The portrait shows More in three-quarter right half-profile, holding a book, in a fur-lined coat of rich fabrics, black satin, and red velvet.[1] He wearing his Tudor Collar of Esses livery chain with Tudor rose, a sign of fealty and high office. A cord in the upper right is tied in a loose Franciscan knot, a sign of More's spiritual convictions.[2] He is wearing a wedding ring inset with a stone.

The work was created during the period from 1526 when Holbein lived in London. He gained the friendship of the Dutch

Desiderius Erasmus, who recommended that he befriend More, then a powerful, knighted speaker at the English Parliament.[3]

A closely related, though probably not directly preparatory, drawing with

bodycolour is in the Royal Collection,[4] and there is a copy in the National Portrait Gallery, probably "painted in Italy or Austria in the early seventeenth century".[5] Possibly this is the version catalogued in the Leuchtenberg Gallery
in 1852.

Another Holbein portrait of More, part of a large group portrait of his family, is now lost, but several drawings (also mostly in the Royal Collection) and copies survive.[6]

A copy hung on the wall of the Stephens in Bewitched.

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Notes

External videos
video icon Hans Holbein, the Younger, Sir Thomas More, Frick Collection[7]
  1. ^ Vitullo-Martin, Julia (24 March 2022). "At the Frick Madison, a Daring New Program Juxtaposes Old Masters and Queer Art". Untapped New York.
  2. ^ "The Franciscan Saints: Thomas More". www.franciscanmedia.org. Franciscan Media. 22 June 2023.
  3. ^ Batschmann & Griener, 158
  4. Royal Collection Trust
    . Inventory no. 912268.
  5. ^ National Portrait Gallery
  6. ^ Thomas More & Family – the painting Archived 27 May 2013 at the Wayback Machine by Rowland Lockey in Nostell Priory
  7. ^ "Hans Holbein, the Younger, Sir Thomas More". Frick Collection. Retrieved 20 February 2013.

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