William Ffytch (b.c. 1496 - 1578) with his Hand on a Skull, aged 51 (previously...

possibly John Bettes the elder (London c.1531 – c.1570). Oil painting on panel, William Ffytch (b.c. 1496 - 1578) with his Hand on a Skull, aged 51 (previously called, impossibly, Thomas Pettit, or Petitt [1570–1607/8]), possibly by John Bettes the elder (London c.1531 – c.1570), inscribed upper right: Æ* SV*Æ* 51. A half-length portrait of a bearded man, wearing a badge with a crown and the royal arms, and a signet ring with arms: vert, a chevron gules between 3 leopards' heads which is of the Fytch family and borrowed from Thomas Wentworth, 1st Baron Wentworth (1501-1551), some of whose properties William Ffytch bought in the 1550s. Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire (Accredited Museum)