Contributions are moderated. Retrieved from https://www.ancient.eu/image/12237/. Can you tell us more about this person? Gerlach Flicke. The artist was Gerlach Flicke, who worked in the tradition of Holbein but with an even more meticulous attention to surfaces and materials, evident here in Cranmer's lawn sleeve and the decoration of the Turkey carpet on the table. If you require information from us, please use our Archive enquiry service. If you wish to license an image, please use our Rights and Images service. Thomas Cranmer Posthumous Portrait. Original image by Unknown Artist. We would welcome any information that adds to and enhances our information and understanding about a particular portrait, sitter or artist. ©National Portrait Gallery: Thomas Cranmer, c.1560. He eventually acknowledged Papal supremacy and the truth of Roman Catholic doctrines except for transubstantiation, but recanted just before his execution. Last modified May 14, 2020. Cranmer was not immediately accepted by the bishops within his province. (National Portrait … National Portrait Gallery, St Martin's Place, London, WC2H 0HESwitchboard: +44 (0) 20 7306 0055, Find out more about the Inspiring People project, National Portrait Gallery, St Martin's Place, London, WC2H 0HE Cranmer was deprived of office under the Roman Catholic rule of Mary I and was ultimately executed for heresy and treason. If you wish to license this image, please use our Rights and Images service. There are occasions when we are unsure of the identity of a sitter or artist, their life dates, occupation or have not recorded their family relationships. If you have information to share please complete the form below. This portrait was painted by Gerlach Flicke, an native of Osnabrück in Germany, who was working in England between 1545 and 1558. Our mission is to engage people with cultural heritage and to improve history education worldwide. This portrait shows him engaged in devotional reading of the Epistles of St Paul, with one of St Augustine's works lying on the table. Recent analysis using infrared reflectography has revealed that several changes were made to the composition during both the planning stages and the painting process. Please note that content linked from this page may have different licensing terms. How do you know this? As a committed Protestant, Cranmer was deprived of office under the Roman Catholic Mary I and tried for treason. The cartellino (an illusionistically painted small piece of paper) on the left gives Cranmer's age and the date: 'Anno etaj 57 Julij 20'; this dates the portrait to either 1545 or 1546, depending on whether the inscription was intended to mean that Cranmer was fifty-seven years old or in his fifty-seventh year. We digitise over 8,000 portraits a year and we cannot guarantee being able to digitise images that are not already scheduled. Please note that we cannot provide valuations. The Ancient History Encyclopedia logo is a registered EU trademark. By ticking permission to publish you are indicating your agreement for your contribution to be shown on this collection item page. Spotted an error, information that is missing (a sitter’s life dates, occupation or family relationships, or a date of portrait for example) or do you know anything that we don't know? The significance of the broken panes of glass in the window is unclear; it may illustrate the need either to repair the moral fabric of the church or to break it down in order to build a new Protestant church. Your contributions must be polite and with no intention of causing trouble. Can you tell us more about this portrait? Thank you! Switchboard: +44 (0) 20 7306 0055, We are currently closed until spring 2023, while essential building works take place, Tudor & Jacobean Portraits book in our Shops, Tudor and Jacobean Portraits database entry, Thomas Cranmer in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Making History: Printed Portraiture in Tudor and Stuart Britain, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Art Conservation Project, Paint analysis as a tool for understanding artistic process, Tudor and Elizabethan portraits used in matching pairs. Please Like other favourites! He recanted, acknowledging papal supremacy, but reverted to his original position and was executed.
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