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Thomas More
Sir Thomas More, oil on panel by Hans Holbein the Younger, 1527; in the Frick Collection, New York City.
Thomas More began writing his seminal work, Utopia, while in the Low Countries in 1515. He had been appointed to a delegation tasked with revising an Anglo-Flemish commercial treaty, and he utilized the long intervals between conference sessions in cities such as Brugge to work on the text. He later completed the book after returning to London, and it was published in Leuven in December 1516.1