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Portrait of Sir Thomas Elyot.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Author
Hans Holbein the Younger  (1497/1498–1543)  wikidata:Q48319 s:it:Autore:Hans Holbein il Giovane q:it:Hans Holbein il Giovane
 
Hans Holbein the Younger
Alternative names
Hans Holbein der Jüngere, Hans Holbein
Description -German painter and drawer
Date of birth/death 1497 or 1498
date QS:P,+1497-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1497-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1498-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
 between 7 October 1543 and 29 November 1543
date QS:P,+1543-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1319,+1543-10-07T00:00:00Z/11,P1326,+1543-11-29T00:00:00Z/11
Location of birth/death Augsburg Edit this at Wikidata London Edit this at Wikidata
Work location
Basel (1515-1526), Lucerne (1515-1526), Venice (1515), Bologna (1515), Florence (1515), Rome (1515), Venice (1517-1518), Bologna (1517-1518), Florence (1517-1518), Rome (1517-1518), London (1526-1528), Basel (1528-1532), London (1532-1543)
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creator QS:P170,Q48319
Title
Portrait of Sir Thomas Elyot.
Description
Sir Thomas Elyot (c. 1490–1546) was a diplomat, Member of Parliament, and a humanist writer, part of the circle around Sir Thomas More. Holbein made this study, along with that of Elyot's wife, Margaret (left), for matching paintings now lost. Both drawings are strongly reinforced with Indian ink around the heads and headgear, a technique absent in the portrait studies of Holbein's first English period. Dating from the earliest stage of his second stay in England, which started in 1532, the drawing is unusually well preserved, down to the white chalk heightening on Elyot's nose.[1] The sitter wears his hair long, in the older fashion.[2] At the time of this drawing, Elyot had just returned from a hopeless mission to persuade Emperor Charles V to accept Henry VIII's treatment of his aunt Katherine of Aragon. As a friend of Thomas More, however, Eliot was suspected of favouring Katherine over Anne Boleyn. Holbein indicates in this drawing that Elyot is wearing a crucifix on a chain, a sign of his traditional faith.[3] In 1531, Elyot had lamented the standard of native-born artists, complaining that the English "be constrayned, if we will have anything well paynted, kerved, or embrawdered, to abandone our own countraymen and resorte unto strangers".[4]
Date 1532–34
Medium chalk, pen and brush on paper (pink-primed paper)
Dimensions height: 28.6 cm (11.2 in); width: 20.6 cm (8.1 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,28.6U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,20.6U174728
institution QS:P195,Q1459037
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Th: Eliott Knight
References
  1. ↑ Susan Foister, Holbein in England, London: Tate, 2006, ISBN 1854376454, p. 52.
  2. ↑ K. T. Parker, The Drawings of Hans Holbein at Windsor Castle, Oxford: Phaidon, 1945, OCLC 822974, p. 40.
  3. ↑ Derek Wilson, Hans Holbein: Portrait of an Unknown Man, London: Pimlico, Revised Edition, 2006, ISBN 9781844139187, pp. 179–80.
  4. ↑ Xanthe Brooke and David Crombie, Henry VIII Revealed: Holbein's Portrait and its Legacy, London: Paul Holberton, 2003, ISBN 1903470099, p. 47.
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