John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners

Netherlandish School

National Portrait Gallery

1520 - 1530

John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners was Chancellor of the Exchequer to Henry VIII and also a scholar. Costume and technique suggest that the portrait may have been painted in the Pas de Calais in the 1520s when Lord Berners was Deputy of Calais.

• Medium: oil on canvas
• Dimensions: 50 x 39 cm
• Art Fund Grant: £3500 ( Total: £34,000)
• ArtFunded in: 1973
• Vendor: Christopher Gibbs

Provenance

Jane, Baroness Berners; by descent, G.H.Tyrwhitt-Wilson; by bequest, R.V.Herber Percy.

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