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Hans Holbein the Younger (UK: / ˈ h ɒ l b aɪ n / HOL-byne, [2] US: / ˈ h oʊ l b aɪ n, ˈ h ɔː l-/ HOHL-byne, HAWL-; [3] [4] [5] German: Hans Holbein der Jüngere; c. 1497 [6] – between 7 October and 29 November 1543) was a German-Swiss painter and printmaker who worked in a Northern Renaissance style, and is considered one of the greatest portraitists of the 16th century. [7]
Self-portrait, c. 1542–43.Coloured chalks and pen, heightened with gold, Uffizi Gallery, Florence. This list of paintings by Hans Holbein the Younger contains a selection of the artist's best-known paintings, as well as a few copies and derivatives of his art, some of which relate to lost works.
The Ambassadors is a 1533 painting by Hans Holbein the Younger.Also known as Jean de Dinteville and Georges de Selve, [1] after the two people it portrays, it was created in the Tudor period, in the same year Elizabeth I was born.
Hans Holbein the Younger, originally from Germany, had been appointed the English King's Painter in 1536. The portrait was created to adorn the privy chamber of Henry's newly acquired Palace of Whitehall. Henry was spending vast sums to decorate the 23-acre (93,000 m 2) warren of residences he had seized after the downfall of Cardinal Wolsey.
Portrait of Sir Thomas More is an oak panel painting created in 1527 by the German artist and printmaker Hans Holbein the Younger, now in the Frick Collection in New York. The portrait shows the English statesman and humanist Thomas More in three-quarter right half-profile, holding a book, in a fur-lined coat of rich fabrics, black satin, and ...
Holbein painted three much-copied portraits of Erasmus in 1523, of which this is the largest and most elaborate. It is likely the one sent to William Warham , Archbishop of Canterbury, in England. Holbein later painted Warham after he travelled to England in 1526 in search of work, with a recommendation from Erasmus, who had once lived in ...
The Portrait of Sir Richard Southwell is a painting by the German Renaissance master Hans Holbein the Younger, executed around 1536–1537. It is housed in the Uffizi, Florence. The painting was required by Grand Duke Cosimo II de' Medici in 1620 to Thomas Howard, Duke of Arundel, to fill a gap in the family collections. It arrived in Florence ...
Holbein gave the painting to the King as the 1539 New Year's gift. [74] [75] Another drawing of Edward by Holbein, produced only a few years later, is also in the Royal Collection. [76] Edward, Prince of Wales [76] c. 1540 – c. 1543: Black and coloured chalks, and pen and ink on pale pink prepared paper. 27.3 × 22.7 cm
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