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Hans Holbein the Younger (1497/8-1543)
Simon George c.1535
Black and coloured chalks, pen and ink, brush and ink, and metalpoint on pale pink prepared paper | 27.9 x 19.1 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 912208
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A portrait drawing of Simon George. The portrait is of the head and shoulders in profile to the left. He wears a cap with a feather. Inscribed in an eighteenth-century hand at bottom: S. George of Cornwall.
The drawing of Simon George, identified as Cornish in the inscription, but otherwise obscure, corresponds with a circular painted portrait now in the Städel Museum in Frankfurt. In the painting, Holbein depicts George holding a red carnation, suggesting that the portrait was commissioned to mark the sitter's betrothal.
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, brush and ink, and metalpoint on pale pink prepared paper
black chalk, red chalk, yellow chalk, white chalk, pen and ink, brush and ink, metalpoint, pale pink prepared paperMeasurements
27.9 x 19.1 cm (sheet of paper)
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RL 12208Featured in
ExhibitionCharles II: Art & Power: The Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace
The art of the Restoration
