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Thomas Wyatt

Thomas Wyatt was a poet, diplomat, writer, politician and translator (1503–1542). He was born in Maidstone and died in London.

Also recorded as Sir Thomas Wyatt

Thomas Wyatt

Portrait of Sir Thomas Wyatt. Oil on panel, 31.7 cm diameter, National Portrait Gallery, London. This oil portrait of Wyatt in a medallic profile composition derives from a lost drawing or painting by Hans Holbein the Younger of about 1540. Holbein's woodcut for Leland's Naenia presumably follows the original version. Four 16th-century copies by other hands survive, of which this is one of two a

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Born
1503 · Maidstone.
Died
1542 · London.
Nationality
Kingdom of England
Occupation
poet · diplomat · writer · politician · translator
Fields
sonnet
Education
St John's College
Languages
English

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Thomas Wyatt was a poet, diplomat, writer, politician and translator (1503–1542). He was born in Maidstone and died in London.

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