Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk (1484-1545)
after Hans Holbein the younger (Augsburg 1497/8 - London 1543)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1700 - 1789
Materials
Oil on panel
Measurements
900 x 720 mm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Vyne Estate, Hampshire
NT 719397
Summary
Oil painting on panel, Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk (1484-1545), after Hans Holbein the younger (Augsburg 1497/8 - London 1543). A three-quarter-length portrait of the General and Statesman who was created Duke in 1514 and married Henry VIII's sister, Mary Tudor, in 1518, seated in a chair, with inscription and coat-of-arms. He suppressed The Pilgrimage of Grace in 1536.
Provenance
In the list "temp. Anthony [recte John] Chute", as in the [Oak] Gallery, and The Topographer, May 1789, as in the Gallery over the green house: "called Holbein's, but very flat and inferior"; 1880s Notes, as in the Chapel Parlour; bequeathed with The Vyne, estate and contents by Sir Charles Chute, 1st Bt (1879-1956)
Credit line
The Vyne, The Chute Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
after Hans Holbein the younger (Augsburg 1497/8 - London 1543), artist
References
Chute 1888 Chaloner William Chute. A History of the Vyne in Hampshire, & of persons who have at some time lived there. Winchester: Jacob & Johnson, 1888, p.147