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| Keywords: Man in a Black Cap, by John Bettes the Elder.jpg Roy Strong He is the artist who on grounds of style has the best claim to have worked under Holbein <ref>Roy Strong The English Icon Elizabethan Jacobean Portraiture London Paul Mellon Foundation 1969 65 “67 </ref> On the other hand Bettes's style is distinct from Holbein's; he paints fur more loosely and the beard more flatly than the German artist <ref name Foister>Susan Foister Holbein in England London Tate 2006 ISBN 1854376454 116 </ref> In the view of art historian Susan Foister on the evidence of this portrait Bettes is unlikely to have assisted Holbein <ref name Foister>Susan Foister Holbein in England London Tate 2006 ISBN 1854376454 116 </ref><br> The recording of an artist's name on a painting is rare in this period The addition of Bettes' nationality suggests that Man in a Black Cap may have been painted abroad <ref>Ellis Waterhouse Painting in Britain 1530 “1790 London Penguin 1978 ISBN 0140561013 23 </ref> Since the work's creation the blue smalt pigment of the background has turned brown; the painting has also been cut down along the sides and bottom with the inscription reaffixed to the back <ref name Hearn>Karen Hearn Dynasties Painting in Tudor and Jacobean England 1530 “1630 London Tate Publishing 1995 ISBN 1854371576 46 “47 </ref> It has been speculated that the portrait may be of Edmund Butts the brother of the William Butts whom Bettes painted Both were sons of William Butts a court physician whose portrait was painted by Holbein in 1543 <ref name Hearn>Karen Hearn Dynasties Painting in Tudor and Jacobean England 1530 “1630 London Tate Publishing 1995 ISBN 1854371576 46 “47 </ref><br> References <references/> Karen Hearn Dynasties Painting in Tudor and Jacobean England 1530 “1630 London Tate 1995 ISBN 1854371576 Creator John Bettes the Elder 1545 Institution Tate Britain <gallery> File John Bettes - A Man in a Black Cap - Google Art Project jpg </gallery> PD-old-100 John Bettes the Elder Art of England Renaissance portraits of men 1540s portrait paintings Paintings in Tate Britain Males with black headwear in art Fur collars in art 1545 paintings Paintings with years of production artist Portrait paintings of bearded men Men facing right in art Portrait paintings with brown background 16th-century oil on panel paintings in the United Kingdom Fur fashion in 1545 | ||||
