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An unidentified man 1535
Black and coloured chalks, white heightening, black and brown inks and blue watercolour on pink prepared paper | 29.8 x 22.2 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 912259
Hans Holbein the Younger (1497/8-1543)
An unidentified man 1535
Hans Holbein the Younger (1497/8-1543)
An unidentified man 1535
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A portrait drawing of an unidentified man on pink prepared paper. He is shown half length and wears a black jacket and cloak and a black hat. The drawing is executed mainly in coloured chalks, wtih strokes of pen and ink to define the sitter's features and a touch of blue watercolour in the eyes. There is a brief pattern in red chalk at the top of the sheet, the purpose of which has not been identified.
A painting in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York (inv. 49.7.23) may be based on this drawing. It bears an inscription with the date 1535 and the sitter's age: 28. On the basis of this, it was suggested by M Gray (in Hackney History, VI, 2000) that the sitter may be Sir Ralph Sadler, a secretary to Thomas Cromwell who in 1535 was appointed Clerk of the Hanaper of Chancery in the year the portrait was made.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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Black and coloured chalks, white heightening, black and brown inks and blue watercolour on pink prepared paper
black chalk, coloured chalk, white heightening, black ink, brown ink, blue watercolour, pink prepared paperMeasurements
29.8 x 22.2 cm (sheet of paper)
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RL 12259
