Focus on Portrait of Thomas Cromwell and explain the abstract.
Portrait of Thomas Cromwell is a small oil painting by the German and Swiss artist Hans Holbein the Younger, usually dated to between 1532 and 1534, when Cromwell, an English lawyer and statesman who served as chief minister to King Henry VIII of England from 1532 to 1540, was around 48 years old. It is one of two portraits Holbein painted of him; the other is a tondo from a series of medallions of Tudor courtiers.The original panel is lost, and today known from three copies: in the Frick Collection in New York (where it is hung opposite Holbein's Portrait of Thomas More); in the National Portrait Gallery in London and the Chichester Constable collection in Yorkshire. The Frick panel is considered superior in quality.
National Portrait Gallery Portrait of Thomas More New York Thomas Cromwell Thomas More Tudor Cromwell oil tondo Hans Holbein the Younger panel Henry VIII King Henry VIII of England Frick Collection Henry VIII of England