Portraits of Sir Thomas Gresham and Anne Fernely, Anthonis Mor, c. 1560 - c. 1565

Title(s)

Portraits of Sir Thomas Gresham and Anne Fernely
Portrait of Sir Thomas Gresham (1519 - 1579) Merchant and financial agent of the English crown in the Netherlands, founder of the Royal Exchange and of Gresham college, London

Object type

• painting

Object number

SK-A-3118

Description

Portret van Sir Thomas Gresham. Koopman en financieel agent der Engelse kroon in de Nederlanden, stichter van de Londense beurs en van Gresham College te Londen. Zittend in een stoel, handschoenen in de rechterhand. Pendant van SK-A-3119.

Artist

• painter: Anthonis Mor

Place

Antwerp

Dating

c. 1560 - c. 1565

Physical features

oil on panel

Material

• panel
• oil paint (paint)

Measurements

height 90 cm × width 75.5 cm

What

• historical persons
• merchant, salesman

Who

• Sir Thomas Gresham

Credit line

• Purchased with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt

Acquisition

purchase May-1931

Copyright

Public domain

Related

• Anne Fernely. Echtgenote van Sir Thomas Gresham

• 1100-1600, Reinier J. Baarsen, Frits Scholten, cat.nr. 83
• 1100 - 1600, Reinier J. Baarsen, Frits Scholten, cat.nr. 83
• 125 jaar openbaar kunstbezit : met steun van de Vereniging Rembrandt, p. 82, 83, 214, afb. 105
• Anthonis Mor : art and authority, Joanna Woodall, p. 414-415
• Antonius Mor, hofschilder van Karel V, Thera Coppens
• Dynasties : painting in Tudor and Jacobean England 1530-1630, Karen Hearn, cat.nr. 18
• From Wood to Canvas : Anthonis Mor, Portraits of Sir Thomas Gresham and Anne Fernely
• De vroege Nederlandse schilderkunst in het Rijksmuseum
• Marieke van Wamel, 'Zóó goed roomsch en zóó goed spaansch. Anthonis Mor and the Problematic Position of Sixteenth-Century Artists with Spanish Patrons in Dutch Art History', Oud Holland 127 (2014) nr. 2/3, p. 57, afb. 6.
• M. van de Laar, M. Wolters, A. Wallert, 'Anthonis Mor and the portrait of Thomas Gresham', in: Making Art in Tudor Britain, Abstracts from Academic Workshops (2007-2008), internetpublicatie op: http://www.npg.org.uk/research/programmes/making-art-in-tudor-britain/workshops/workshop-3-abstract-1.php
• F. Bijl de Vroe, "Het Nationaal Fonds 1930 en de voorzitters M.P. Voûte en E. Heldring", Bulletin van de Vereniging Rembrandt 15 (2005), nr. 2, p. 29-31.