Portrait of Sir Thomas More

Portrait of Sir Thomas More is an oak panel painting created in 1527 by the German artist and printmaker Hans Holbein the Younger, now in the Frick Collection in New York.

The portrait shows the English statesman and humanist Thomas More in three-quarter right half-profile, holding a book, in a fur-lined coat of rich fabrics, black satin, and red velvet.

A cord in the upper right is tied in a loose Franciscan knot, a sign of More's spiritual convictions.

He gained the friendship of the Dutch humanist Desiderius Erasmus, who recommended that he befriend More, then a powerful, knighted speaker at the English Parliament.

[3] A closely related, though probably not directly preparatory, drawing with bodycolour is in the Royal Collection,[4] and there is a copy in the National Portrait Gallery, probably "painted in Italy or Austria in the early seventeenth century".