Sir Thomas More (1478-1525)
Note that the work cited forms only a possible match with the seventeenth-century record.
Recorded twice in the Van der Doort inventory, in the Cabinet Room (WS 85 no.48) and later in conservation (WS 191, no 4).
Forcibly given by Fanshwe's widow through Lord Arundel; miniature copy of Holbein's portrait of Thomas More in the Frick, New York.
Van der Doort c.1639
WS 85, № 48
Hans Holbein the Younger
Sir Thomas More, in a black cap and furred gown with red sleeves
Walpole Society reference (1960):
Measurements (Van der Doort):
4in x 4in (10.2 x 10.2cm)
Medium:
on a round turned piece of wood
Light:
light from the right
Frame:
the frame whited and gilded
Provenance:
Sir Henry Fanshawe's widow
Gift / Exchange / Bought / Inherited:
gift
Hang notes:
under no 47
Location:
Room description extended:
By your majesty's especially command your pictures and rarities which you had kept at St James's in the Cabinet Room were transported and brought to Whitehall into the Privy Gallery in your Majesty's newly-erected Cabinet Room, whereof the particulars as well of the said rarities from St James's as also other Pictures medals agates or the like since by Your Majesty thereunto augmented, as by the number and bigness particularly signified doth appear as followeth
Original Manuscript page number:
Windsor MS., f. 14
Charles II inventory c1666:
Whitehall, no 447, 10 circle
Identification certainty:
Possible
Sale Inventory c.1649-51