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Description Follower of Hans Holbein the Younger
Portrait of Matthew Parker (1504-1575), Archbishop of Canterbury
inscribed upper left: A:B: Cranmer.
oil on panel
45.7 x 32.6 cm.
Condition Report The panel is uncradled, flat and stable. The varnish is slightly discoloured.?There is a vertical join which is visible from the front under raking light, 10cm. in from the right margin. There are small retouchings visible scattered throughout, as well as a small paint loss along the centre of the lower margin (visible in the catalogue illustration). There are small areas where the paint surface is tenting slightly (just right and below of the sitter's face, where there is another tiny paint loss). Inspection under ultraviolet light confirms these, and reveals the retouching in the lower right corner as more concentrated.
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Literature Inventory, 1749, in the 'Stewards Room';
Catalogue of Portraits, 1920,?'Small Panels', p. 24.
Notes Incorrectly identified as Thomas Cranmer in the inscription, this portrait actually depicts Matthew Parker,?Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury?(1559-75), who?presided over the Elizabethan religious settlement in which the?Church of England?maintained a distinct identity apart from?Roman Catholicism?and?Protestantism.?Parker studied at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and was ordained a priest in 1527.?From 1535 to 1547 he was dean of a college of priests in Suffolk and from 1544 to 1553 master of Corpus Christi College, occasionally holding other positions concurrently, such as chaplain to?Henry VIII?(1538) and vice chancellor of the?University of Cambridge?(1545 and 1549). Forced to resign and retire to private life under the Roman Catholic?Mary I, he was?consecrated?archbishop of Canterbury thirteen months after?Elizabeth I’s?accession.?As archbishop, Parker supervised the revision of Archbishop?Thomas Cranmer’s forty-two doctrinal articles of 1553. This composition is based on a painting at?Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (inv. no. 50)1 which itself appears to be based on a lost original by Hans Holbein the Younger. Another portrait of the sitter is found at Lambeth Palace (inv. no. 50).2
1 https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/matthew-parker-15041575-master-15441553-archbishop-of-canterbury-15591575-193706
2 https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/matthew-parker-15041575-archbishop-of-canterbury-87121/search/venue:lambeth-palace-5956/page/8/view_as/grid