Follower of Hans Holbein the Younger
1497/8-1543
1497/8-1543
PORTRAIT OF ALDERMAN ROBERT TRAPPES (1479-1560)
half length, wearing a fur trimmed cloak and a red doublet, holding a bible
charged u.l. with the arms of the Goldsmith's Company, and further charged u.r. with the sitter's coat of arms and inscribed:ANNO DNI 1554 / AETATIS SUAE.75
oil on panel
60 by 49 cm., 23½ by 19¼ in.
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Saleroom Notice
By descent from the sitter to Elizabeth Holford, niece of Thomas Trappes;
Elizabeth Thurland, her sister-in-law, whose daughter married Philip Broke and thence by descent
Royal Academy, Winter Exhibition, 1912, no.45 (lent by Lord de Saumarez)
Edmund Farrer, Portraits in East Suffolk Houses, MSS, Vol. II, p. 161, no. 43 in the list of pictures at Broke Hall