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Hans Holbein the Younger (1497/8-1543)
George Brooke, 9th Baron Cobham (c.1497-1558) c.1532-43
Black and coloured chalks, pen and ink and metalpoint, on pale pink prepared paper | 28.9 x 20.3 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 912195
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A portrait drawing of George Brooke, 9th Baron Cobham (c.1497-1558). A bust length portrait facing to the front. He wears a cap with badge and a neck chain. Inscribed in an eighteenth-century hand at upper left: Brooke Ld Cobham.
George Brooke, 9th Baron Cobham (c.1497-1558) was a prominent courtier and soldier during the reign of Henry VIII, and was elevated to the Order of the Garter during Edward VI's reign. What is presumably a copy after a lost painting by Holbein, corresponding to this drawing, is in a private collection; a reference to 'the Pictur of the Lord Cobham. Holb:' can be found in the list of 'things put up in chests which are to go with his Lordship beyond Sea', compiled as Thomas Howard, 2nd Earl of Arundel was preparing to leave England in 1641-2.
Text adapted from Charles II: Art & Power, London, 2017Provenance
Henry VIII; Edward VI, 1547; Henry FitzAlan, 12th Earl of Arundel; by whom bequeathed to John, Lord Lumley, 1580; by whom probably bequeathed to Henry, Prince of Wales, 1609, and thus inherited by Prince Charles (later Charles I), 1612; by whom exchanged with Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of Pembroke, 1627/8; by whom given to Thomas Howard, 14th Earl of Arundel; acquired by Charles II by 1675
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Black and coloured chalks, pen and ink and metalpoint, on pale pink prepared paper
black chalk, red chalk, yellow chalk, brown chalk, pen and ink, metalpoint, pale pink prepared paperMeasurements
28.9 x 20.3 cm (sheet of paper)
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RL 12195Featured in
ExhibitionCharles II: Art & Power: The Queen's Gallery, Palace of Holyroodhouse
The art of the Restoration
PublicationCharles II: Art & Power
A lavish publication to accompany the Royal Collection exhibition
