# Study for the Family Portrait of Sir Thomas More [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [HOLBEIN, Hans the Younger]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Pen and brush in black on top of chalk sketch, 389 x 524 mm ## Commentary Study for the Family Portrait of Sir Thomas More c. 1527 Pen and brush in black on top of chalk sketch, 389 x 524 mm Kupferstichkabinett, Öffentliche Kunstsammlung, Basel This is a preparatory study for the lost group portrait of the More family. The astronomer Nikolaus Kratzer \(1487-1550\), who taught in the More household, has noted in Latin besides the figures their names and ages. On the left is Elizabeth Dauncy \(1506-1564\), Thomas More's youngest daughter, while beside her is the adopted daughter Margaret Giggs \(1508-1570\) explaining a point of text to old Sir John More \(c. 1451-1530\). Thomas More sits grandly in the centre, with \(left and right of him\) the engaged couple Anne Cresacre \(1512-1577\) and young John More \(c. 1509-1547\), Thomas More's only son. Beside John More, and looking directly out of the picture, is the household fool, Henry Patenson. On the right of the picture are Cecily Heron, born 1507, and his eldest daughter, Margaret Roper, \(1505-1544\); his second wife, Lady Alice, kneeling at a prie-dieu, rounds off the picture on the right. ## Related artworks - [Adam and Eve]() - [Apollo and the Muses on Parnassus]() - [Charitas]() - [Charles Brandon]() - [Christ as the True Light]() - [Christina of Denmark, Ducchess of Milan \(detail\)]() - [Christina of Denmark, Ducchess of Milan]() - [Courtier of Henry VIII and his Wife]() - [Darmstadt Madonna \(detail\)]() - [Darmstadt Madonna \(detail\)]() - [Darmstadt Madonna \(detail\)]() - [Darmstadt Madonna \(detail\)]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()