This drawing is masterly, and is a splendid example of how easily Holbein seized upon the leading characteristics of a face and with a few swift strokes fixed them for our admiration for ever. In his youth More had been handsome, and, according to Erasmus, was of a fair complexion, with dark-brown hair and gray eyes. His firmly-compressed lips and his penetrating glance give to his face a sternness which he seldom displayed, except in his detestation of heretics; but fine judgment and nobility of feeling, and that mental harmony which springs from inward peace, are the leading characteristics in his face as the artist has drawn it for us here. One can see at a glance that here was a man who would always be just in his dealings with others, and unchangeable in carrying out what he knew to be his duty--a student and a man of deep learning, and yet a man of affairs and of the world, trusted by his King and admired by his equals, and losing his head on the block through his invincible honesty. Erasmus well said of him: “He possesses that beautiful ease of mind, or, still better, that piety and prudence, with which he joyfully adapts himself to everything that comes, as though it were the best that could come.” [Illustration: _Colls photo._] [_Windsor Castle._ SIR THOMAS MORE, LORD HIGH CHANCELLOR. [_From a drawing._]] LIST OF THE ARTIST’S CHIEF WORKS IN PUBLIC GALLERIES GREAT BRITAIN. _WINDSOR CASTLE._ SIR HENRY GUILDFORD, MASTER OF THE HORSE, 1527. HANS OF ANTWERP AND OF THE STEELYARD, 1532. DERICH BORN, OF THE STEELYARD, 1533. THOMAS HOWARD, THIRD DUKE OF NORFOLK, ABOUT 1540. CHRISTINA OF DENMARK, DUCHESS OF MILAN, 1538. A small panel, showing head and hands only, possibly an earlier study than the full-length belonging to the Duke of Norfolk. _HAMPTON COURT PALACE._ ELIZABETH, LADY VAUX. Small bust, partly repainted. There is a replica in Prague. JOHN RESKEMEER, OF MURTHYN, CORNWALL. MARY MAGDALEN AT THE SEPULCHRE. (See illustration and p. 58.) _NATIONAL GALLERY._ JEAN DE DINTEVILLE AND GEORGE DE SELVE (“THE AMBASSADORS”), 1533. (See illustration and p. 47.) CHRISTINA OF DENMARK, DUCHESS OF MILAN, 1538 (See illustration and p. 54.) _BARBER SURGEONS’ HALL._ HENRY VIII. GRANTING A CHARTER TO THE NEW CORPORATION OF BARBER SURGEONS. Holbein’s last work, left unfinished. _NATIONAL GALLERY OF IRELAND._ SIR HENRY WYATT. Replica of the picture in the Louvre, and formerly in the Magniac Collection. AUSTRIA. _VIENNA, IMPERIAL GALLERY._ GERYCK (OR DERICH) TYBIS OF DUISBURG AND THE STEELYARD, 1533. QUEEN JANE SEYMOUR, ABOUT 1537. A small half-length; there is a copy of it at Woburn Abbey. PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG MAN, AGED 28, 1541. A very fine portrait, probably of an Englishman. DR. JOHN CHAMBER, ABOUT 1541. A small half-length of a very old man. Chamber’s portrait in the Barber Surgeons’ picture is one of the few heads in that work in which the hand of Holbein can now be traced. PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG LADY.