File:Thomas Wyatt, Woodcut By Hans Holbein The Younger.jpg
This woodcut was probably based on a lost Holbein drawing or painting of Wyatt from around 1540. Holbein had already drawn Wyatt in the mid 1530s wearing a hat. Here he is shown balding. Four copies of the lost work, by other hands, survive (see "Other versions" below for two).
Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503?–42) was a diplomat and a gifted poet who introduced the Italian sonnet form to England. He was arrested after the fall of Anne Boleyn, whom he had admired in poetry, but he recovered to become ambassador to the Emperor Charles V before being arrested again in 1541.
References
- Susan Foister, Holbein in England, London: Tate, 2006, ISBN 1854376454, p. 56.
- Roy Strong, Tudor and Jacobean Portraits, London: HMSO, 1969, p. 339.
Hans Holbein the Younger
(1497/1498–1543) |
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Hans Holbein der Jüngere, Hans Holbein | ||
Description | -German painter and drawer | ||
Date of birth/death | 1497 or 1498 | between 7 October 1543 and 29 November 1543 | |
Location of birth/death | Augsburg | London | |
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