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The National portrait gallery (1901)

National Portrait Gallery (Great Britain) · London, New York [etc.] Cassell and company, limited · leaf 42

An illustration from The National portrait gallery, 1901, leaf 42
It had always formedpart of the Royal Collection, and was seen in 1598 in WhitehallPalace by Paul Hentzner, the German traveller, who has described it.It is also mentioned in Walpoles 6 Anecdotes of Painting. The portrait is surrounded by a finely painted landscape, andwhen viewed through a… … 28 THE NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY. THOMAS CRANMER, D.D. 1489-1556. Painted, at the age of fifty-seven,in 1546 by G. Fliccius. Archbishop of Canterbury, and favourite of Henry VIII. Hefavoured the dissolution of the monasteries, and zealously enforcedthe Kings supremacy. Cranmer procured the Kings…

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