A portrait drawing of Sir Thomas Wyatt (c.1503-1542) on pink prepared paper. He is shown bust-length, turned to the right, but turning his head to look to the left.The drawing is largely in black and coloured chalk with the facial features worked up in ink and watercolour.

An eighteenth-century inscription (a copy of a mid-sixteenth-century original) at top left identifies the sitter as 'Tho: Wiatt Knight.'

Thomas Wyatt was a poet and ambassador, who represented Henry VIII's interests in Italy, France and Spain. He brought new literary conventions into English, among them the sonnet. His peripatetic lifestyle means there were few opportunities when he could have sat to Holbein and this drawing was probably made between the artist's return to England in 1532 and Wyatt's departure for embassy in spring 1537. The Wyatt family were significant patrons of Holbein, who also painted THomas's father Henry and his sister Margaret Lee. A close copy of this drawing is in the Royal Collection (RCIN 912251).