© National Portrait Gallery
John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners
Artist: Netherlandish School
Location: National Portrait Gallery
Date: 1520 - 1530
Materials: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 50 x 39 cm
Grant:
Amount Paid: £3,500 (Total: £34,000)
Vendor: Christopher Gibbs
Review number: 2481 (1973)
Provenance:
Jane, Baroness Berners; by descent, G.H.Tyrwhitt-Wilson; by bequest, R.V.Herber Percy.
Description:
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.
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