<i>Portrait of Thomas, Lord Vaux.</i> Black and coloured chalks on pink-primed paper, <span style="white-space:nowrap">29.1 × 20.6 cm</span>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Collection" class="extiw" title="w:Royal Collection">Royal Collection</a>, Windsor Castle. The drawing has been very badly rubbed and is clearly reworked. Traces of Holbein's original left-handed shading are, however, discernible in the hat. K. T. Parker, in his study of the Windsor drawings, attributed this "much injured" study to Holbein, noting that "the comparatively unscathed passage of the ear is finely drawn" (Parker, 44).
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Vaux,_2nd_Baron_Vaux_of_Harrowden" class="extiw" title="w:Thomas Vaux, 2nd Baron Vaux of Harrowden">Thomas Vaux, 2nd Baron Vaux of Harrowden</a>, was a poet, the author of posthumous verses in Tottel's <i>Miscellany</i>, 1557. He served as Captain of the Isle of Jersey. Holbein had drawn <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thomas,_Lord_Vaux,_by_Hans_Holbein_the_Younger.jpg" title="File:Thomas, Lord Vaux, by Hans Holbein the Younger.jpg">an earlier portrait of him</a>, in which he is shown with longer hair. He also drew <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Elizabeth,_Lady_Vaux,_by_Hans_Holbein_the_Younger.jpg" title="File:Elizabeth, Lady Vaux, by Hans Holbein the Younger.jpg">Vaux's wife, Lady Elizabeth</a>.
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<ul><li>K. T. Parker, <i>The Drawings of Hans Holbein at Windsor Castle,</i> Oxford: Phaidon, 1945, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/822974?referer=di&amp;ht=edition">OCLC 822974</a>.</li></ul>
<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 1536 <div style="display: none;">date QS:P,+1536-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902</div>
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