Portraits of Sir Thomas Gresham and Anne Fernely

• Portrait of Sir Thomas Gresham (1519 - 1579) Merchant and financial agent of the English crown in the Netherlands, founder of the Royal Exchange and of Gresham college, London
• Portraits of Sir Thomas Gresham and Anne Fernely

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Sir Thomas Gresham (1519–1579) was the leading English merchant in Antwerp and also the English king’s financial agent in the Low Countries. He and his wife, Anne Fernely, are expensively, yet soberly dressed. Their status is also evident in their choice of painter: Anthonis Mor was one of the pre-eminent portraitists of his day and court painter to the Spanish king

F. Bijl de Vroe, "Het Nationaal Fonds 1930 en de voorzitters M.P. Voûte en E. Heldring", Bulletin van de Vereniging Rembrandt 15 (2005), nr. 2, p. 29-31.

painter: Anthonis Mor, Antwerp

c. 1560 - c. 1565

olieverf op paneel

height 90 cm x width 75.5 cm

Purchased with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt

purchase 1931-05

Public domain

• F. Bijl de Vroe, "Het Nationaal Fonds 1930 en de voorzitters M.P. Voûte en E. Heldring", Bulletin van de Vereniging Rembrandt 15 (2005), nr. 2, p. 29-31.
• Marieke van Wamel, 'Zóó goed roomsch en zóó goed spaansch. Anthonis Mor and the Problematic Position of Sixteenth-Century Artists with Spanish Patrons in Dutch Art History', Oud Holland 127 (2014) nr. 2/3, p. 57, afb. 6.
• M. van de Laar, M. Wolters, A. Wallert, 'Anthonis Mor and the portrait of Thomas Gresham', in: Making Art in Tudor Britain, Abstracts from Academic Workshops (2007-2008), internetpublicatie op: http://www.npg.org.uk/research/programmes/making-art-in-tudor-britain/workshops/workshop-3-abstract-1.php

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