EXHIBITIONS

The Independent - London | February 22, 1994| | Copyright

Hans Holbein the Younger drew Sir Thomas Elyot one day in 1532. The sitter gazed off to the artist's left, made sure he kept still and staved off boredom with a daydream. Four and a half centuries later, Elyot survives death in Holbein's disconcertingly vivid image of him. He is faintly flushed, his cheeks dark with stubble and his greenish blue eyes thoughtful. His face is precisely observed, down to immature sideburns and a few strands of hair that have truantly separated themselves from the lank combed mass of the rest. Holbein's Tudor knight is almost palpable but he remains inscrutable.

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