<i>Portrait study of Anne Cresacre</i>. Black and coloured chalks on paper, 37.5 × 26.8 cm, Royal Collection, Windsor.<br><br>Anne Cresacre (1511–77) was the ward of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_More" class="extiw" title="w:Thomas More">Thomas More</a>, who had taken her into his family after the death of her father. In 1527, she was betrothed to More's only son, <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_More,_son_of_Sir_Thomas_More,_by_Hans_Holbein_the_Younger.jpg" title="File:John More, son of Sir Thomas More, by Hans Holbein the Younger.jpg">John</a>: the couple married in 1529. This drawing is one of seven fine surviving studies drawn by Holbein for his <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Study_for_portrait_of_the_More_family,_by_Hans_Holbein_the_Younger.jpg" title="File:Study for portrait of the More family, by Hans Holbein the Younger.jpg">group portrait of Thomas More's family</a>. The back of a chair on the left shows that Anne is seated, but in the group portrait she is standing, with John More nearby.
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circa 1527 <div style="display: none;">date QS:P,+1527-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902</div>
Susan Foister, <i>Holbein in England</i>, London: Tate, 2006, <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/1854376454" title="Special:BookSources/1854376454">ISBN 1854376454</a>.