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Thomas, 2nd Baron Vaux (1509-1556) c. 1535
Black and coloured chalks on pink prepared paper | 29.1 x 20.6 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 912246
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Hans Holbein the Younger (1497/8-1543)
Thomas, 2nd Baron Vaux (1509-1556) c. 1535
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Hans Holbein the Younger (1497/8-1543)
Thomas, 2nd Baron Vaux (1509-1556) c. 1535
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A portrait drawing of Thomas, 2nd Baron Vaux (1509-1556). A bust length portrait facing three-quarters to the right. He wears a cap. Inscribed in an eighteenth-century hand at upper left: The Lord Vaux. Thomas, 2nd Baron Vaux of Harrowden, succeeded to the title in 1523. In 1532 he travelled to France as a member of Henry VIII’s embassy to meet the French King, and in the same year was made a Knight of the Bath. Vaux was the author of elegiac and melancholy poetry, which was published posthumously in various anthologies. He died from the plague in October 1556. This drawing of Lord Vaux with the companion image of his wife (RL 12247) was probably made as a study for a painted portrait. Holbein’s painting of Lady Vaux is known only through copies. No painting of Lord Vaux survives. Another portrait drawing of Lord Vaux by Holbein is in the Royal Collection (RL 12245).
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 on pink prepared paper
Measurements
29.1 x 20.6 cm (sheet of paper)
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Other number(s)
RL 12246