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Cecily Heron (née More; 1507–?), one of Thomas More's children, was part of a circle of exceptionally educated and accomplished women who exemplified "learned ladies" for the next two centuries.
A portrait drawing of Cicely Heron (b.1507), daughter of Sir Thomas More, bust-length to front, facing three-quarters right. She wears a headdress, a dress with a square décolletage, and a pendant. The sitters bodice has been loosened to reveal her yellow kirtle beneath, showing her to be pregnant. The drawing is a preparatory study for a ...
Cicely Heron, the youngest daughter of Sir Thomas More, has loosened the bodice of her gown, revealing her yellow kirtle beneath, to accommodate her changing body shape during pregnancy. Another practical option was to insert an additional piece of fabric known as a placard or stomacher between the two sides of a bodice. During this period a ...
Cecily Heron (née More) (born 1507), Youngest daughter of Sir Thomas More. Sitter in 8 portraits.
Our starting point is Hans Holbein’s astonishingly fresh chalk sketch of Cicely Heron from the 1520s. Heron was the daughter of Thomas More – the early English philosopher, Renaissance humanist and chancellor to Henry VIII – and her gown’s lacing is clearly loosened for her growing stomach.
2. Dez. 2019 · The exhibition includes Holbein’s beautiful portrait of Thomas More’s daughter, Cicely Heron, which was sketched from life; the maternity dress that Princess Charlotte wore for her portrait painted by George Dawe in 1817, the year that she died in childbirth, both on loan by Her Majesty The Queen from the Royal Collection; and ...
22. Jan. 2020 · Hans Holbein II’s sketch of Cicely Heron, daughter of Sir Thomas More, bears all the hallmarks of the famous Tudor painter: a sense of immediacy and intimacy, a masterfully observed study...
