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Brochure entitled "Portrait of Sir Thomas More, by Hans Holbein (The Younger)," circa 1912 [page 7 of 13]

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[beginning of page] (7) BALDINUCCI. "Lives of the Painters". 


     Hans Holbein painted another wonderful picture of Sir

Thomas More, which formerly hung in the Gallery of Henry VIII, in the room where the pictures of the most celebrated men of ancient and modern times were kept. This wonderful picture attracted the attention of the infamous Anne Boleyn, the same who had procured the death of Sir Thomas, and caused her to break out into these words:- 

     "Alas, what is this, that this man lives again upon this

panel?" Whereupon she had it taken from its place, and with her own hands threw it from a lofty window of the palace; and it was attributed to the action of Divine Providence that this valuable portrait, until, being brought to Rome, it was placed in the Palace of the Crescenzi, where it has been kept to this day. [end of page]