Hans Holbein the Younger, Volume 2 (of 2)Chamberlain, Arthur B. (Arthur Bensley)
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Hans Holbein the Younger, Volume 2 (of 2)
Chamberlain, Arthur B. (Arthur Bensley)
Holbein, Hans, 1497-1543 -- Criticism and interpretation; Painters -- Germany -- Biography
The third portrait of 1536 represents Sir Thomas le Strange. It is on
panel, 15¼ × 10½ in., and was exhibited at the Tudor Exhibition, 1890
(No. 113), and at the Burlington Fine Arts Club Exhibition, 1909 (No.
41), lent by Mr. Hamon le Strange.[184] It is a bust portrait,
three-quarters to the left. The sitter has greyish hair cut straight
across the forehead, and a short brown beard and moustache. His black
cap has a number of gold tags and a medallion, and he wears a gown with
a brown fur collar over a black dress, a pleated white collar from which
long tags hang down, and a long gold chain over his shoulders. Across
the top, on the green-blue background, is the repainted inscription
“ANNO D^E 1536 ÆTATIS SVÆ 43.” It has suffered considerable repainting
about the face, but it is a picture of much interest, and since it was
last exhibited has been acknowledged by most of the leading critics to
be a genuine work by Holbein. The original drawing for this picture,
which shows some slight differences, is in the Windsor collection.[185]
Sir Thomas Strange or le Strange, of Hunstanton, Norfolk, was born in
1493, and entered the service of Henry VIII as esquire of the body, was
knighted, and accompanied the king to the Field of the Cloth of Gold. He
was High Sheriff of Norfolk in 1532, and died in 1545.
Footnote 184:
Reproduced by Ganz, _Holbein_, p. 109, and in the illustrated
catalogue of the Burlington Fine Arts Club Exhibition, Pl. xii.
Footnote 185:
Woltmann, 294; Wornum, i. 32; Holmes, ii. 6.
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