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Title: Hans Holbein the younger
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Chamberlain, Arthur Bensley
Subjects: Holbein, Hans, 1497-1543
Publisher: New York : Dodd, Mead and Company
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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THE PORTRAIT OF SIR THOMAS MORE 303 the family picture among the Holbein drawings in Windsor Castle.Sir John More,1 Sir Thomas, his son John,2 his daughters Elizabeth3and Cecilia (PI. 77)* Anne Cresacre,5 and Margaret Clement.6 Theseare all larger than the majority of the sketches in the collection,and on white unprimed paper. There are two drawings of Sir Thomas(PI. 78), which, although the face is taken from the same pointof view, are not replicas, but distinctly separate studies ; the pose isslightly different, and the hair quite unlike, and it may perhaps beconjectured that one of them is the study made for the Group, andthe other a later study made shortly before the artist left England. In addition to the family picture, Holbein painted separate por-traits of Sir Thomas, Lady More, and, possibly, Margaret Roper.The portrait of More is the well-known one belonging to Mr. EdwardHuth,8 which has been frequently exhibited, most recently at theBurlington Fine Arts Club in 1909 (No. 5

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