Portrait of sir george carew. Black and coloured chalks, reworked with metalpoint, on pink-primed paper, 31. 9 × 23. 5cm, royal collection, windsor castle. The drawing is in bad condition, much injured by rubbing and with a black stain where the outline of the hat joins the face, and a smeared stain below in centre. It has been reworked so much, and sharply gone over with metalpoint, that it has sometimes been thought not a holbein original. Sir george carew (c. 1514–1545) was a soldier and naval commander under henry viii. Vice-admiral of the royal fleet in 1545, he was in command of the flagship the mary rose when it sank in the solent in 1545. The inscription on a roundel painting made from this drawing by a follower of holbein reads: "sir george carew/knight first sohn to sir/willm carew drowned at/portsmouth in the maryos". Date: c. 1540–43.
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