Bettes: A Man in a Black Cap
Bettes: A Man in a Black Cap
Bettes: A Man in a Black Cap
Bettes: A Man in a Black Cap
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John Bettes

A Man in a Black Cap, 1545

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About the artwork
This is the earliest painting in the Tate collection and unusually for its time is signed on the back. The portrait was part of the collection at Brome Hall, Suffolk, handed down from Henry VIII's physician William Butts. The sitter may be Butts's third son, Edmund, who inherited the property the year the painting was made. The style is reminiscent of Holbein - the background was originally painted in blue, a colour often used by him, but Bettes used ‘smalt’, essentially ground glass which, as in this instance, turns ginger brown when exposed to light.
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  • Artist John Bettes
  • Artwork A Man in a Black Cap
  • Image size 47 x 41 cm
  • Date of work 1545
  • Credit Oil paint on oak 47 x 41 cm

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Very little is known about the life of 16th century painter John Bettes other than that he was living in Westminster in 1556. He is first recorded as doing decorative works at Whitehall Palace for Henry Vlll in 1531. Payments to him from Queen Catherine of Aragon for painting miniature portraits, (lymning), of her and the King are documented in her accounts of 1546/47. It is considered a possibility that he may have worked with Hans Holbein the younger who re-designed the public images at the court.
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