Richard Foxe

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Richard Foxe

after Johannes Corvus
oil on panel, late 16th century
26 1/4 in. x 18 in. (667 mm x 457 mm)
Bequeathed by Thomas Kerslake, 1891
Primary Collection
NPG 874

Sitterback to top

  • Richard Foxe (1447 or 1448-1528), Bishop and statesman. Sitter in 12 portraits.

Artistback to top

  • Johannes Corvus (active 1528-1545), Artist. Artist or producer associated with 5 portraits.

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This late sixteenth-century portrait is a version derived from a design by the artist Johannes Corvus in the first half of the century. It was common for patterns to be copied and reproduced in this way in the Tudor period. The painting shown alongside is a much later version of the same portrait type, demonstrating that there was also a demand for copies of Tudor portraits into the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Unfortunately, like many paintings on wooden panel, this portrait has suffered from paint loss and vertical splits in the wood over time. It would originally have been very colourful and eye-catching. Some of this detail is still visible, for example in the shield in the background and the lettering.

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Events of 1570back to top

Current affairs

Pope Pius V issues a Papal 'bull' excommunicating Queen Elizabeth I from the Catholic Church. The bull provokes widespread anti-Catholicism in England.
Elizabeth contemplates marriage with either Charles, Archduke of Austria or Henri, Duke of Anjou.

Art and science

Publication of The Scholemaster by the royal tutor Roger Ascham, which popularises the educational views of the English nobility.
The mathematician and antiquary John Dee's preface to the first English translation of Euclid's Elements of Geometrie anticipates the experimental science of the seventeenth century.
The Italian architect Andrea Palladio published I Quattro Libri dell'Architettura (The Four Books of Architecture).

International

Treaty of St Germain-en-Laye ends the Third War of Religion in France. Huguenots (French Protestants) are granted religious freedom and the Huguenot leader Admiral Gaspard de Coligny becomes a dominant force at court.
The Treaty of Stettin - Denmark agrees to recognise the independence of Sweden and Sweden abandons its claim to Norway.
Ivan IV (the Terrible), Tsar of Russia, oversees the Massacre of Novgorod.

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