Portrait of Thomas Cromwell is a small oil painting by the German-Swiss artist Hans Holbein the Younger. It is usually dated to between 1532 and 1534, when Cromwell, an English lawyer and statesman wh
The Frick copy of the portrait, c. 1532–33
Portrait of Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, c. 1585-1596
Portrait of Sir Thomas More, 1527. Cromwell was instrumental in establishing the English Reformation, and played a key role in More's downfall
This portrait miniature of Cromwell is derived from the 1532 portrait but shows him tired and older. A similar miniature, with the Garter collar, survives and is attributed to Holbein by the National Portrait Gallery, but most scholars do not consider it an original Holbein
The Frick Collection is an art museum on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. It was established in 1935 to preserve the collection of the industrialist Henry Clay Frick. The collection
Portrait of Thomas Cromwell
…artist's other English court paintings, which tend to be lavish and flattering. The original panel is lost, and today known from three copies: in the Frick Collection in New York, an early seventeenth-century version in the National Portrait Gallery in London, and in the Chichester Constable collection in Yorkshire…
When Frick died in 1919, he bequeathed the Henry Clay Frick House on Fifth Avenue as a public museum for his art collection.
The Frick Art Research Library reopened in 1935.
Entrance to the Frick Collection