Current knowledge
Cleveland Museum of Art, Edward B. Greene Collection 1957.356
Follower of Hans Holbein the Younger
Sir Thomas More (1478-1525)
Current measurements:
6.6cm x 6.3cm
Date:
seventeenth century
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 1639
Hans Holbein the Younger
Sir Thomas More, in a black cap and furred gown with red sleeves
Sale Inventory c.1649-51
Walpole Society reference (1972):