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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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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