A fine art, giclée print professionally set in a Crescent Select off white/textured (100% virgin alpha-cellulose surface, acid-free and lignin-free) double mat behind Tru Vue Premium Clear glass in a midnight black lacquer square hardwood frame with a soft satin finish.
Sir Thomas More (1478-1535) was a humanist scholar and statesman, who rose to power under Henry VIII, becoming Speaker of the House of Commons and Lord Chancellor. Later, he resigned as Chancellor in protest at Henry's proposed divorce from Catherine of Aragon, and then refused to agree to Henry becoming supreme head of the English Church. As a result, he was convicted of high treason and beheaded. Venerated as a martyr by the Catholic Church, he was canonized in 1935.
