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Copy after Hans Holbein the Younger (1497/8-1543)
Sir Thomas Wyatt (c.1503-1542) c.1535-53
Black and coloured chalks, and pen and ink on pale pink prepared paper | 37.3 x 27.5 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 912251
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A portrait drawing of Sir Thomas Wyatt (c.1503-1542), a poet who served at the court of Henry VIII. A bust length portrait facing three-quarters to the right. He is shown wearing a hat and fur collar. Inscribed in an eighteenth-century hand at upper right: Sr Tho: Wiat Kt. This drawing is a copy of RL 12250 by Hans Holbein the Younger.
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 pen and ink on pale pink prepared paper
Measurements
37.3 x 27.5 cm (sheet of paper)
Markings
watermark: close to Briquet 11219:
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Other number(s)
RL 12251
