Thomas Seymour, Baron Seymour
© National Portrait Gallery, London
Thomas Seymour, Baron Seymour
by Unknown artist
oil on panel, second half of 16th century
21 in. x 16 1/2 in. (533 mm x 419 mm)
Purchased, 1967
Primary Collection
NPG 4571
Sitterback to top
- Thomas Seymour, Baron Seymour (1509?-1549), Lord High Admiral; brother of 1st Duke of Somerset. Sitter in 6 portraits.
This portraitback to top
All portraits of Seymour appear to be drawn from a miniature from c.1545, now in the National Maritime Museum. This portrait dates from after his death and contains a celebratory inscription, declaring Seymour to be a man whose blood 'wase {s}pilt without iust cause'.
Linked publicationsback to top
- Bolland, Charlotte; Cooper, Tarnya, The Real Tudors: Kings and Queens Rediscovered, 2014 (accompanying the exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery from 12th September 2014 to 1st March 2015), p. 67
- Saywell, David; Simon, Jacob, Complete Illustrated Catalogue, 2004, p. 557
Events of 1551back to top
Current affairs
All plate is removed from churches on the orders of the Privy Council.Princess Mary (later Mary I) rejects Protestant reforms.
Art and science
Utopia, written in 1516 by the scholar and stateman Sir Thomas More, is translated from Latin into English.The Swiss naturalist Conrad Gesner publishes the first volume of Historiae Animalium (History of Animals). As the first pictorial catalogue of the animal world it is a seminal work of zoology.
International
The Ottoman admiral Turgut Reis captures Tripoli (in present-day Libya) from the Order of the Knights of St John.Comments back to top
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