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Description English School, 16th Century
Portrait of Thomas, Lord Seymour, of Sudeley (c. 1508-1549)
oil on panel
33.4 x 23.5 cm.
Condition Report The panel is uncradled, flat and stable. The paint surface is slightly dirty and the varnish quite discoloured and uneven. There is a horizontal join that runs the width of the panel just below centre, which is visible to the naked eye under raking light. Some parts of the paint surface are rather abraded, such as the coloured background. There has been some flaking but the paint surface is now stabilised; there as some resulting small losses and associated retouchings which are visible to the naked eye (all visible in the catalogue illustration). Inspection under ultraviolet light reveals a thick, streaky varnish which makes it difficult to discern intervention. Some of the aforementioned retouchings are visible, including a horizontal band in the sitter's forehead, but this is also visible to the naked eye.
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Literature Inventory, 1749, in the 'Steward Parlour', wrongly described as the sitter's brother, the?Duke of Somerset;
Catalogue of Portraits, 1920, no. 101;
A.T. Bolton, ‘Mersham le Hatch’,?
Country Life, 26 March 1921, photographed in?the hall, p. 370;
H. Avray Tipping, ‘Mersham le Hatch’,?
Country Life, 8 August 1925,?in situ, p. 219;
H. Avray Tipping,
English Homes, Late Georgian, 1760-1820, London, 1926, in situ, p. 124;
R.?Strong,
Tudor and Jacobean Portraits, London 1969, text volume p. 358 (as one of a number of workshop repetitions after a lost original, possibly by William Scrots).
Notes The sitter was the brother of Henry VIII's third wife, Jane Seymour, the uncle of Edward?VI, second husband of Henry VIII's last wife Catherine Parr, and brother of The Lord Protector Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset.
Following Anne Boleyn's execution, Henry VIII married her lady-in-waiting Jane Seymour, which transformed the careers of her two brothers. Thomas, the younger, was almost immediately entrusted with a number of diplomatic missions to the courts of Francis I of France, Ferdinand of Bohemia and Charles V. On his return in 1542 he was made Marshal of the English army in The Netherlands at the outbreak of war with France, and as a result of his success was made Master General of the Ordinance and Warden of the Cinque Ports. Following Henry's death in 1547 his status was further enhanced as he became a member of the Regency Council, set up to rule England on behalf of his ten year old nephew, and was ennobled as Lord Seymour of Sudeley (the estate he was granted in Gloucestershire) and made Lord High Admiral. He also marries the King's widow and was made a Knight?of the Garter. This is the time when the prototype of this?image was made which may well be the miniature in the collection of the National?Maritime Museum, Greenwich,1 (or a lost original?painting by Scrots).2 Other versions are known, including that in the National Portrait Gallery (NPG4571).3
1 https://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/42085.html
2 https://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/14494.html
3 https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw05710/Thomas-Seymour-Baron-Seymour?LinkID=mp04043&role=sit&rNo=0