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John Colet, Dean of St Paul's (1467-1519) c.1535
Black and coloured chalks, pen and ink, brush and ink, and metalpoint on pale pink prepared paper | 26.8 x 20.5 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 912199
Hans Holbein the Younger (1497/8-1543)
John Colet, Dean of St Paul's (1467-1519) c.1535
Hans Holbein the Younger (1497/8-1543)
John Colet, Dean of St Paul's (1467-1519) c.1535
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A portrait drawing of John Colet (1467-1519), Dean of St Paul's Cathedral. A bust length portrait facing three-quarters to the left. He wears an ecclesiastic cap and cape. The drawing is not made directly from the life but after a bust of Colet attributed to the Italian sculptor Pietro Torrigiano. Inscribed in an eighteenth-century hand at upper centre: Iohn Colet Dean of St Paul's.
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, pen and ink, brush and ink, and metalpoint on pale pink prepared paper
black chalk, red chalk, brown chalk, white chalk, pen and ink, brush and ink, metalpoint, pale pink prepared paperMeasurements
26.8 x 20.5 cm (sheet of paper)
Markings
watermark: Briquet 11391: hand and crown [same as 12189]
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RL 12199
