LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on panel

Size Notes:

diameter

Description:

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Exhibited:

Fairfield, Connecticut, Fairfield University, Thomas J. Walch Art Gallery, Christian Art from the Rojtman Foundation Collection, 22 February-6 April 1991, no. 2.

Literature:

J.B. Trapp, ed., The King’s Good Servant: Sir Thomas More, 1477/8-1535, exhibition catalogue, London, 1977, under no. 286, as “a miniature in the possession of the Melander Shakespeare Society”.

Provenance:

(Possibly) Princess Mathilde de Bonaparte (1820-1904), Paris. Trivulzio collection, Milan. Private collection, Zurich. Melander Shakespeare Society; Christie's, London, 16 March 1956, lot 45 (800 gns. to West). with Newhouse Galleries, New York. Morrie A. Moss, Memphis, Tennessee. with T. Gilbert Brouillette, New York. The Rojtman Foundation; Sotheby's, New York, 28 January 2005, lot 577, as 'Follower of Hans Holbein the Younger'. The Rojtman Foundation; Sotheby's, New York, 21 June 2005, lot 11, as 'Follower of Hans Holbein the Younger', where acquired by the present owner.