<i>Portrait study of Sir Thomas More</i>. Black and coloured chalks on paper, 40.2 × 30.1 cm, Royal Collection, Windsor.
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_More" class="extiw" title="w:Thomas More">Sir Thomas More</a> (1477/88–1535) was a leading English humanist scholar and Lord Chancellor under Henry VIII of England. He was executed in 1535 after refusing to sign the oath to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acts_of_Supremacy" class="extiw" title="w:Acts of Supremacy">Act of Supremacy</a>. More received Hans Holbein as a guest in 1526, after a recommendation from his friend <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desiderius_Erasmus" class="extiw" title="w:Desiderius Erasmus">Desiderius Erasmus</a>. Holbein painted <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sir_Thomas_More,_by_Hans_Holbein_the_Younger.jpg" title="File:Sir Thomas More, by Hans Holbein the Younger.jpg">a portrait of More based on this study</a> and also a group portrait of More's family, now lost, in which More was pictured in the same pose. This is one of seven fine portrait sketches of More family members that survive, along with <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">a pen-and-ink study for the group portrait</a>. It is the only one pricked for transfer.
<bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Hans_Holbein_the_Younger" class="extiw" title="w:en:Hans Holbein the Younger"><span title="German artist and printmaker (1497-1543)">Hans Holbein the Younger</span></a>
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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>.