Name: Huge 16th Century English Portrait of Sir Thomas Smythe (1514-1577) Hans HOLBEIN
Year: 16th Century
Size: 80" x 57"
Medium: Oil
Description: Portrait Of Thomas Smythe (1514-1577), 16th Century School of Hans HOLBEIN (1497-1543) - Fine huge 16th Century English Old Master portrait of Sir Thomas Smythe, oil on canvas, Magnificent huge scale full length portrait in an interior wearing a fur lined coat, his hand on a globe, holding a glove and bearing the sitters coat of arms. Inscribed and titled on the frame plaque. Exceptional condition for its age and presented in a good wooden frame, Likely to be by a close member of Holbein's circle.
Provenance Spains Hall, Finchingfield, and thence by descent to the present owner. Another portrait of Sir Thomas Smythe, by Thomas Hudson is at Queens' College, Cambridge University