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PORTRAIT OF SIR THOMAS MORE" by HANS HOLBEIN (THE YOUNGER) Size 23-1/4 in. wide by 29-1/4 in. high on Panel.

Description. Half length, seated three quarters; close shaven, gray mustache; dark hair; black cap; blue black gown lined with brown fur, with deep brown fur collar; crimson satin sleeves; golden collar of S. S. with portculis clasps and Tudor rose pendant; his right elbow rests on a table to left; both hands clasped together holding a folded paper before him; back ground of green curtain with dark brown fringe tied back by red cord; inscribed in table M. D. XXVII.

Biography of Sir Thomas More. THOMAS MORE, SON OF SIR JOHN MORE, JUSTICE OF THE COURT OF KING'S BENCH, was born in Milk Street, London, February 7th, 1478. He was educated at St. Anthony School in Threadneedle Street, in the household of Cardinal Morton, Archbishop of Canterbury, and at Oxford. But his father who intended for him a lawyer's career, took him out of Oxford before he had received his degree, and entered him at New Inn, for a two years course. In 1496 he was admitted at Lincoln's Inn. Soon after this, when he was at the age of twenty, he was seized with a violent sense of religious feeling, subjected himself to the discipline of a Carthusian Mink, and prepared to enter a Monastery. But his acquaintance with Erasmus, that prince of letters, revived in