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Hans Holbein the Younger (1497/8-1543)
Sir George Carew (c.1504-1545) c.1532-43
Black and coloured chalks, and metalpoint on pale pink prepared paper | 31.6 x 23.3 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 912197
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A portrait drawing of Sir George Carew (c.1504-1545), commander of the Mary Rose. A bust length portrait facing three-quarters to the right. Related to a circular painting in the possession of the Earl of Bradford. Inscribed in an eighteenth-century hand at upper right: S. G. Carow Knight,
Provenance
Henry VIII; Edward VI, 1547; Henry FitzAlan, 12th Earl of Arundel; by whom bequeathed to John, Lord Lumley, 1580; by whom probably bequeathed to Henry, Prince of Wales, 1609, and thus inherited by Prince Charles (later Charles I), 1612; by whom exchanged with Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of Pembroke, 1627/8; by whom given to Thomas Howard, 14th Earl of Arundel; acquired by Charles II by 1675
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Medium and techniques
Black and coloured chalks, and metalpoint on pale pink prepared paper
Measurements
31.6 x 23.3 cm (sheet of paper)
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Other number(s)
RL 12197
