File:William Reskimer (2) by Hans Holbein the Younger.jpg

English: Black chalk, red chalk, yellowish brown chalk, white chalk, pen and ink, metalpoint, pink prepared paper. A bust length portrait in profile to the left. The drawing is inscribed, from a later date, "Reskemeer a Cornish ... Gent". It has a patched hole at the left temple, and a faint rectangle can be seen cutting across the brow and enclosing the face and beard. Art historian K. T. Parker, who made a study of the Windsor drawings, described the sheet as "well preserved on the whole, but with some niggling, no doubt later lines (e.g. back of head and nape of neck). Observe also the original left-handed shading of the coat on right as opposed to the darker, probably retouched passages below and to the left of the beard" (Parker, p. 44). This is a preparatory drawing for an oil painting of Reskimer. Since the portrait was once owned by family connections, it has been deduced that the sitter was William Reskimer, sometime page and gentleman usher to the chamber of Henry VIII and keeper of the Cornish ports. Both works have been dated to the early part of Holbein's second stay in England, when he was still painting vines and fig leaves in the background of his portraits (Foister, p. 42).