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John Fisher

Copy of St John's College portrait

John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester. Born at Beverley, Yorkshire 1469 - martyred June 22, 1535, Tower of London. Canonised (with Saint Thomas More) 1935. Saint John Fisher studied theology in Cambridge, England and became Bishop of Rochester. His friend Saint Thomas More wrote of him, "I reckon in this realm no one man, in wisdom, learning, and long approved virtue together, meet to be matched and compared with him." Saint John Fisher and his friend Saint Thomas More gave up their lives in testimony to the unity of the Church and to the indissolubility of marriage. The portrait has images of a skeleton and cross typical emblems of the preoccupation of counter-reformation thought with ideas of death.

1700 - 1800

This portrait arrived unframed and was framed in 1957 by H.S.Everett [correspondence portait file, filing cabinet 4]. Presented by Sir Bruce Stirling Ingram, editor of the Illustrated London News since 1900, hon keeper of the drawings , Fitzwilliam Museum. Frame supplied by Arnold Wiggins & sons Ltd Chiltern St., Baker St., W1 (£27.10/- framed by Mr H.S.Everett 33Warren Rd., Received at College Meeting 24th April 1956.

16th century