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John Russell, 1st Earl of Bedford (1485-1555) c.1532-43
Black and coloured chalks, and white bodycolour on pale pink prepared paper | 34.9 x 29.2 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 912239
Hans Holbein the Younger (1497/8-1543)
John Russell, 1st Earl of Bedford (1485-1555) c.1532-43
Hans Holbein the Younger (1497/8-1543)
John Russell, 1st Earl of Bedford (1485-1555) c.1532-43
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A portrait drawing of John Russell, 1st Earl of Bedford (1485-1555). A bust length portrait facing three-quarters to the left. He is shown wearing a skull cap. Inscribed in an eighteenth-century hand at upper left and right: I Russell Ld Privy Seale...with one Eye.
Born in Dorset, John Russell was knighted c.1513. He was present at the Field of the Cloth of Gold in 1520, the great meeting of Henry VIII and Francis I of France. Two years later Russell returned to France on a military campaign, during which he lost the use of his right eye, as mentioned in the inscription. From 1540 to 1542 he served as Lord High Admiral, and later as Lord Privy Seal.
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 white bodycolour on pale pink prepared paper
Measurements
34.9 x 29.2 cm (sheet of paper)
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RL 12239
