Detail of More Family and Descendents

The More Family, Household, and Descendents 1593-4, miniature painted by Rowland Lockey. Vellum stuck on card 24.6 x 29.4 cm. Victoria and Albert Museum.

This image is one of a few surviving family group portraits from the Tudor time period. It is a copy of the original Holbein painting of Sir Thomas More and his family, painted around 1527. That original was destroyed by fire in the eighteenth century.

This miniature was probably painted by Sir Thomas' grandson Rowland Lockey about 1590-95. Lockey has added family heraldry, and a group of late sixteenth century descendants of More situated to the right of the image.

Image from the book The Tudor Image by Maurice Howard (1995). Page #48. Tate Publishing, Millbank, London. Printed in Great Britain by Penshurst Press. ISBN 1-85437-159-2