Artist: Hans Holbein The Younger
Date: 1527
Size: 29 x 39 cm
Museum: Royal Collection (London, United Kingdom)
Technique: Drawing
A portrait drawing of Sir Thomas More (1478 - 1535) The portrait shows his head and shoulders and the sitter faces three-quarters to the right. He wears a hat and fur collar. The drawing has been pricked for transfer. Inscribed in an 18th-century hand at upper left: Tho: Moor Ld Chancelour. Hans Holbein was born in Augsburg, trained in Basel and spent a total of thirteen years in England, in 1526-8 and 1532-43. During the latter period he was the most important artist at the court of Henry VIII, though the English were primarily interested in portraits of themselves - as Anthony Van Dyck was to find a century later - and little survives of Holbein
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