Portrait of Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk (NHMF)

The portrait, one of only two lifetime oil portraits of the sitter, was acquired by private treaty sale through Christie’s, with the generous support of the National Heritage Memorial Fund and the National Art Collections Fund (Art Fund).  No other lifetime portrait of Thomas Howard is owned by a public collection and this important acquisition addresses a significant gap in the narrative history of sixteenth-centuryEngland among the National Portrait Gallery’s collections.