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| Keywords: Thomas Cranmer.png A portrait by Gerlach Flicke shows him without a beard in 1546 so the present painting depicts him late in life The first images of Cranmer with a long beard appeared in Boissard's collection of portraits from 1560 Image Thomas-Cranmer jpg and in John Foxe's Actes and Monuments in 1563 Image Foxe's Book of Martyrs - Cranmer Cole jpg seven years after Cranmer's burning Foxe describes him as of stature mean of complexion pure and somewhat sanguine and as having a long beard white and thick See Roy Strong Tudor and Jacobean Portraits London HMSO 1969 pp 53 “56; Diarmaid MacCulloch The Boy King Edward VI and the Protestant Reformation Berkeley University of California Press 2002 p 78 Chris Skidmore Edward VI The Lost King of England London Weidenfeld and Nicolson 2007 ISBN 9780297846499 Unknown artist Uploaded by qp10qp Almost certainly posthumous; according to Strong this version at Lambeth Palace is likely a seventeenth-century or later copy The inscription refers to Cranmer's martyrdom 1556 left 100px Thomas Cranmer PD-Art | ||||
