Thomas Linaker/ Linacre bust by John Cheere in the Codrington Library at All Souls Oxford

The Codrington Library Plaster Busts by John Cheere, 

All Souls College, Oxford University.

Part 20.  Thomas Linaker (1460 - 1524).

Fellow of All Souls, 1484.

His tomb was in St Paul's Cathedral - but lost in the Great Fire of London.

The memorial for Thomas Linacre (d. 1524), humanist scholar and physician. 

This was recorded very briefly by Stow who did not comment on the location of the monument or its

composition.

The inscription was recorded by Dugdale but he did not include an illustration of the monument in his History of St Paul’s.

 The monument was erected in 1557 by John Caius as a retrospective commission. 

That there was no illustration of this monument suggests that it was a sixteenth century tablet which

only contained the epitaph with no image of the deceased.

For a useful potted biography see - 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Linacre.

see also - 
http://www.linacre.ox.ac.uk/about-linacre/college-history/thomas-linacre



For a better and more detailed biog from the Royal College of Physicians website see 

http://munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk/Biography/Details/2752

Portrait of Thomas Linacre (or Lynaker) (c. 1460 – 20 October 1524), 

after an original attributed to Quinten Massys( 1465/6 -1530) dated 1527.

Copied by William Miller (College Beadle of the Royal College of Physicians and amateur painter), 1810.

From an original painting in the Royal Collection at Windsor Castle from the Collection of Charles I. 
It does not appear in van Doort's catalogue of 1639 although it does in a catalogue of James II pictures of 1688 as no. 527, recorded as 'An old mans head.... by Holbein'. By 1818 this had been amended to 'Portrait of the celebrated Linacre founder of the College of Physicians'.

This is the usually accepted image of Linacre. However the identification has been challenged and the original at Windsor is now catalogued as An Elderly Man.

The above image from Royal College of Physicians.



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Thomas Linacre

Anonymous portrait

Photograph from the Wellcome Library Collection.

from an Unidentified Source.

https://wellcomecollection.org/works/rkqcvc6r?query=Linacre

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Drawing.

347 x 208 mm.

French 17th Century

Bequeathed to the British Museum by Clayton Mordaunt Cracherode, 1799.

Annotated in pen in brown ink below drawing "Thomas Linacre professeur en medecine a son Isle Anglaise, homme certes docte aus deux langues, Grecqs et Latine, ayant copose plusieurs doctes liures, mourat a Lodres Lan de nee seigr."

On verso in pencil "D. Lincoln in letter of Oct. 28, 1949 suggests that this drawing is by the same hand as the original studies for the engravings in Theret's 'Hommes Illustre' 1584, which are in an interleaved copy of the work in the Bibliotheque Nationale".

British Museum.

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Thomas Linacre MD.

anonymous engraving.

108 x 95 mm.

Probably late 18th Century

Obviuosly taken from the above French drawing also formerly in the Cracherode Collection.

From a drawing in the collection of  Rev. Clayton Maurdant Cracherode (1730 - 99).

National Portrait Gallery

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Thomas Linacre MD.

anonymous engraving.

114 x 9 mm.

Probably late 18th Century

Obviuosly taken from the above French drawing also formerly in the Cracherode Collection

From a drawing in the collection of  Rev. Clayton Maurdant Cracherode (1730 - 99).

British Museum.

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The photographs above taken by the author.


The fur collar suggests that the John Cheere bust of Thomas Linaker (Linacre) might have been derived from the drawing in the Cratcherode Collection in the British Museum. Although the resemblance to the facial features is not close.



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Thomas Sydenham MD. A bust by John Cheere, Codrington Library

The Codrington Library Plaster Busts by John Cheere, 

All Souls College, Oxford University.

Part 19. Thomas Sydenham. M.D.

The 'Father of English Medicine'. The 'English Hippocrates'.

Fellow of All Souls.

For an informative and useful biography see - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Sydenham


This is so far the only bust in this series that I have discovered that has been duplicated elsewhere.

There is another version at the Wren Library, Trinity College, Cambridge.

Thomas Sydenham.
A Blooteling (1640 - 90).

engraving after Mary Beale (1633 - 99).

15.2 x 9.5 cma
1676.

Image Courtesy National Galleries Scotland.


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Thomas Sydenham M.D.
A. Nagtegael.
Engraving after Mary Beale (1633 - 99).
12.7 x 8cmms
late 17th Century.

Image courtesy National Galleries Scotland
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Thomas Sydenham
Engraving after Lely
Mid 18th Century?

177 x 95 mm
National Portrait Gallery


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Thomas Sydenham
After the original by Lely (1618 - 80) in the Possession of John Sydenham
Jacob Houbraken
Engraving from Birch's Heads. Published by Knapton 1747.
373 x 240 mm.
1746.
Image courtesy British Museum


This engraving is the closest to the bust by John Cheere illustrated below - the folds of the lace neckerchief are very similar.



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Thomas Sydenham M.D.
Anonymous Artist.
Oil on Canvas.
76.3 x 63.6 cms.

Wellcome Collection, London

Image Courtesy Art UK.
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Thomas Sydenham
 Mary Beale (1633 - 99).
Oil on Canvas
76.2 x 63.5 cms


Gift from William Sydenham in 1691 to the Royal College of Physicians.


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Thomas Sydenham
Copy after Mary Beale (1633 - 99).
Oil on Canvas
76.2 x 53.5 cms
Gift to the Royal College of Physicians 1747 by Theodore Sydenham.

Image courtesy Art UK.


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Thomas Sydenham MD.
John Wollaston (1672 - 1749)
Oil on Canvas
74.5 x 61.5

Gift to the Bodleian Library by Humphrey Bartholemew in 1735.


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Thomas Sydenham M.D.
Mary Beale
Oil on Canvas
76.2 x 63.5 cms
Royal College of Physicians.
 Given by Mr Bayford in 1842.



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Thomas Sydenham. M.D.
Mary Beale.
Oil on canvas.
762 x 610 mm.
1688.

National Portrait Gallery.



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The 1746 engraving by Jacob Houbraken above described as after Lely but perhaps more likely after Mary Beale is the closest to the bust by John Cheere illustrated below - the folds of the lace neckerchief are very similar.

All photographs above taken by the author at the Codrington Library, All Souls College, Oxford.

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Thomas Sydenham M.D.

John Cheere

Life Size Plaster Bust

Wren Library, Trinity College Cambridge.

All photographs above taken by the author.

With grateful thanks to Nicolas Bell, Librarian at the Wren Library for all his assistance.

John Norris bust by John Cheere, Codrington Library.

The Codrington Library Plaster Busts by John Cheere, 

All Souls College, Oxford University.

Part 18,  John Norris (1657 - 1712).

Fellow of All Souls 1680.

I can find no contemporary portrait of John Norris

For a very brief biography see - 

https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Norris.

All photographs above taken by the author.

Jeremy Taylor, bust by John Cheere, Codrington Library.

The Codrington Library Plaster Busts by John Cheere, 

All Souls College, Oxford University.

Part 17. Jeremy Taylor (1613 - 67).

Bishop of Down and Connor

Fellow of All Souls

For a very useful biography see - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Taylor

Jeremy Taylor
Anon.
Portrait at Gonville and Caius College. Cambridge.


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Jeremy Taylor
Anon
Oil on Canvas 100 x 60 cms approx
17th Century?
Durham University
Donated in 1842
Image Courtesy Art UK

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Jeremy Taylor
Pierre Lombart (1612 - 82).
Engraving
32.4 x 22 cms
1660

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Jeremy Taylor Bishop of Downe and Conner 
Anon.
Engraving 146 x 87 mm.
1660 -70.
British Museum.

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All photographs above taken by the author.

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David Pole Bust by John Cheere Codrington Library

The Codrington Library Plaster Busts by John Cheere, 

All Souls College, Oxford University.

Part 16.  David Pole (d. 1568)
Bishop of Peterborough.

Fellow of All Souls in 1520.

Some say bastard brother of Cardinal Pole.  David Pole devoted himself to civil law, and graduated B.Can.L. on 2 July 1526 and D.Can.L. on 17 February 1527-1528. In 1529 he became an advocate in Doctors' Commons. 

He was connected with the diocese of Lichfield, where he held preferments, first under Bishop Geoffrey Blyth, and then under Bishop Rowland Lee. He was made prebendary of Tachbrook in Lichfield Cathedral on 11 April 1531, archdeacon of Salop in April 1536, and archdeacon of Derby on 8 January 1543.

He received the appointment of dean of the arches and vicar-general of the archbishop of Canterbury on 14 November 1540. A conscientious adherent of the Roman Catholic faith, he occupied several positions of importance during Queen Mary's reign. In her first year he acted as vicar-general of the bishop of Lichfield, Richard Sampson, and commissioner for the deprivation of married priests, and in his capacity of archdeacon he sat on the commission for the deprivation of Thomas Cranmer, Nicholas Ridley, and Hugh Latimer, and the restoration of Edmund Bonner and other deprived bishops. He stood high in the favour of Cardinal Pole, said to have been a relative, who appointed him his vicar-general. During the vacancy of the see of Lichfield on Bishop Sampson's death in 1554, he was appointed commissary for the diocese. In the early part of the same year he took part in the condemnation of John Hooper and Rowland Taylor. On 25 April 1556 he was appointed on the commission to inquire after heretics, and to proceed against them.

On the death of John Chambers, the first bishop of the newly formed diocese of Peterborough, the queen sent letters commendatory to Pope Paul IV in Pole's favour. He was consecrated at Chiswick on 15 August 1557 by Nicholas Heath, archbishop of York. He shortly sanctioned the execution of John Kurde, a Protestant shoemaker, who was burnt at Northampton on 20 September 1557.

On the accession of Elizabeth, he was on the first abortive commission for the consecration of Matthew Parker as archbishop, 9 September 1559. In the same year he, with Bonner and two other prelates, signed Archbishop Heath's letter of remonstrance to Elizabeth, begging her to return to the Catholic faith. His refusal to take the oath under the act of supremacy was followed by his deprivation; but he was treated leniently by the queen. Allowed to live on parole in London or its suburbs, he died on one of his farms in May or June 1568. His property he left to his friends, and his books on law and theology to his college, All Souls'.

This information from Dictionary of National Biography (1885 - 1900).