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HOLBEIN, Hans the Younger
German painter (b. 1497, Augsburg, d. 1543, London). Hans Holbein the Younger, born in Augsburg, was the son of a painter, Hans Holbein the Elder, and received his first artistic training from his father. Hans the Younger may have had early contacts with the Augsburg painter Hans Burgkmair the Elder. In 1515 Hans the Younger and his older brother, Ambrosius, went to Basel, where they were apprenticed to the Swiss painter Hans Herbster. Hans the Younger worked in Lucerne in 1517 and visited northern Italy in 1518-1519. On Sept. 25, 1519, Holbein was enrolled in the painters' guild of Basel, and the following year he set up his own workshop, became a citizen of Basel, and married the widow Elsbeth Schmid, who bore him four children. He painted altarpieces, portraits, and murals and made designs for woodcuts, stained glass, and jewelry. Among his patrons was Erasmus of Rotterdam, who had settled in Basel in 1521. In 1524 Holbein visited France. Holbein gave up his workshop in Basel in 1526 and went to England, armed with a letter of introduction from Erasmus to Sir Thomas More, who received him warmly. Holbein quickly achieved fame and financial success. In 1528 he returned to Basel, where he bought property and received commissions from the city council, Basel publishers, Erasmus, and others. However, with iconoclastic riots instigated by fanatic Protestants, Basel hardly offered the professional security that Holbein desired. In 1532 Holbein returned to England and settled permanently in London, although he left his family in Basel, retained his Basel citizenship, and visited Basel in 1538. He was patronized especially by country gentlemen from Norfolk, German merchants from the Steel Yard in London, and King Henry VIII and his court. Holbein died in London between Oct. 7 and Nov. 29, 1543. With few exceptions, Holbein's work falls naturally into the four periods corresponding to his alternate residences in Basel and London. His earliest extant work is a tabletop with trompe l'oeil motifs (1515) painted for the Swiss standard-bearer Hans Baer. Other notable works of the first Basel period are a diptych of Burgomaster Jakob Meyer zum Hasen and his wife, Dorothea Kannengiesser (1516); a portrait of Bonifacius Amerbach (1519); an unsparingly realistic Dead Christ (1521); a Madonna and Child Enthroned with Two Saints (1522); several portraits of Erasmus, of which the one in Paris (1523 or shortly after), with its accurate observation of the scholar's concentrated attitude and frail person and its beautifully balanced composition, is particularly outstanding; and woodcuts, among which the series of the Dance of Death (ca. 1521-1525, though not published until 1538) represents one of the high points of the artist's graphic oeuvre. Probably about 1520 Holbein painted an altarpiece, the Last Supper, now somewhat cut down, which is based on Leonardo da Vinci's famous painting, and four panels with eight scenes of the Passion of Christ (possibly the shutters of the Last Supper altarpiece), which contain further reminiscences of Italian painting, particularly Andrea Mantegna, the Lombard school, and Raphael, but with lighting effects that are characteristically northern. His two portraits of Magdalena Offenburg, as Laïs of Corinth and Venus with Cupid (1526),

 

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HOLBEIN, Hans the Younger Portrait of Edward, Prince of Wales sg oil painting

Painting ID::  7578

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HOLBEIN, Hans the Younger
Portrait of Edward, Prince of Wales sg
c. 1539 Oil on oak, 57 x 44 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington
   
   
     

 

 

HOLBEIN, Hans the Younger Portrait of Henry VIII dg oil painting

Painting ID::  7579

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HOLBEIN, Hans the Younger
Portrait of Henry VIII dg
1540 Oil on panel, 88,5 x 74,5 cm Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, Rome
   
   
     

 

 

HOLBEIN, Hans the Younger Portrait of Catherine Howard s oil painting

Painting ID::  7580

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HOLBEIN, Hans the Younger
Portrait of Catherine Howard s
1540-41 Oil on wood, 74 x 51 cm Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio
   
   
     

 

 

HOLBEIN, Hans the Younger Henry VIII and the Barber Surgeons sf oil painting

Painting ID::  7581

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HOLBEIN, Hans the Younger
Henry VIII and the Barber Surgeons sf
c. 1543 Oak, 180,3 x 312,4 cm Royal College of Surgeons of England, London
   
   
     

 

 

HOLBEIN, Hans the Younger Henry VIII and the Barber Surgeons sf oil painting

Painting ID::  7582

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HOLBEIN, Hans the Younger
Henry VIII and the Barber Surgeons sf
c. 1543 Paper mounted on canvas, 160 x 280 cm Royal College of Surgeons of England, London
   
   
     

 

 

HOLBEIN, Hans the Younger Edward, Prince of Wales d oil painting

Painting ID::  7583

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HOLBEIN, Hans the Younger
Edward, Prince of Wales d
1543 Oil on wood, diameter 32,4 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
   
   
     

 

 

HOLBEIN, Hans the Younger Sir Richard Southwell sg oil painting

Painting ID::  7584

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HOLBEIN, Hans the Younger
Sir Richard Southwell sg
1536 Oil on wood, 47,5 x 38 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence
   
   
     

 

 

HOLBEIN, Hans the Younger Portrait of Simon George sf oil painting

Painting ID::  7585

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HOLBEIN, Hans the Younger
Portrait of Simon George sf
1536-37 Oil on oak, diameter 31 cm Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt
   
   
     

 

 

HOLBEIN, Hans the Younger Christina of Denmark, Ducchess of Milan sf oil painting

Painting ID::  7586

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HOLBEIN, Hans the Younger
Christina of Denmark, Ducchess of Milan sf
1538 Oil on oak, 179 x 83 cm National Gallery, London
   
   
     

 

 

HOLBEIN, Hans the Younger Portrait of a Man Holding Gloves and Letter sg oil painting

Painting ID::  7587

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HOLBEIN, Hans the Younger
Portrait of a Man Holding Gloves and Letter sg
c. 1540 Oil on wood, 32,5 x 26 cm Kunstmuseum, Öffentliche Kunstsammlung, Basle
   
   
     

 

 

HOLBEIN, Hans the Younger De Vos van Steenwijk oil painting

Painting ID::  7588

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HOLBEIN, Hans the Younger
De Vos van Steenwijk
1541 Oil on wood, 47,6 x 36,2 cm Staatliche Museen, Berlin
   
   
     

 

 

HOLBEIN, Hans the Younger Unknown Young Man at his Office Desk sf oil painting

Painting ID::  7589

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HOLBEIN, Hans the Younger
Unknown Young Man at his Office Desk sf
1541 Oil on wood, 47 x 34,9 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
   
   
     

 

 

HOLBEIN, Hans the Younger Portrait of Henry Howard, the Earl of Surrey s oil painting

Painting ID::  7590

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HOLBEIN, Hans the Younger
Portrait of Henry Howard, the Earl of Surrey s
1541-43 Oil on wood, 55,5 x 44 cm Museu de Arte, São Paolo
   
   
     

 

 

HOLBEIN, Hans the Younger Portrait of Sir William Butts sg oil painting

Painting ID::  7591

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HOLBEIN, Hans the Younger
Portrait of Sir William Butts sg
1543 Oil on wood, 47 x 36,8 cm Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
   
   
     

 

 

HOLBEIN, Hans the Younger Portrait of Lady Margaret Butts sg oil painting

Painting ID::  7592

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HOLBEIN, Hans the Younger
Portrait of Lady Margaret Butts sg
1543 Oil on wood, 46 x 37 cm Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
   
   
     

 

 

HOLBEIN, Hans the Younger Portrait of John Chambers dg oil painting

Painting ID::  7593

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HOLBEIN, Hans the Younger
Portrait of John Chambers dg
1543 Oil on oak, 58 x 39,7 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
   
   
     

 

 

HOLBEIN, Hans the Younger Portrait of Duke Antony the Good of Lorraine sf oil painting

Painting ID::  7594

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HOLBEIN, Hans the Younger
Portrait of Duke Antony the Good of Lorraine sf
c. 1543 Oil on oak, 51 x 37 cm Staatliche Museen, Berlin
   
   
     

 

 

HOLBEIN, Hans the Younger Portrait of Nikolaus Kratzer,Astronomer oil painting

Painting ID::  40343

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HOLBEIN, Hans the Younger
Portrait of Nikolaus Kratzer,Astronomer
mk156 1528 Tempera on oak 83x67cm
   
   
     

 

 

HOLBEIN, Hans the Younger Damstadt Madonna oil painting

Painting ID::  40338

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HOLBEIN, Hans the Younger
Damstadt Madonna
mk156 c.1528 Oil on lindenwood 146x102cm
   
   
     

 

 

HOLBEIN, Hans the Younger Portrait of a Member of the Wedigh Family oil painting

Painting ID::  41319

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HOLBEIN, Hans the Younger
Portrait of a Member of the Wedigh Family
mk161 Tempera and oil on wood 16x12
   
   
     

 

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HOLBEIN, Hans the Younger
German painter (b. 1497, Augsburg, d. 1543, London). Hans Holbein the Younger, born in Augsburg, was the son of a painter, Hans Holbein the Elder, and received his first artistic training from his father. Hans the Younger may have had early contacts with the Augsburg painter Hans Burgkmair the Elder. In 1515 Hans the Younger and his older brother, Ambrosius, went to Basel, where they were apprenticed to the Swiss painter Hans Herbster. Hans the Younger worked in Lucerne in 1517 and visited northern Italy in 1518-1519. On Sept. 25, 1519, Holbein was enrolled in the painters' guild of Basel, and the following year he set up his own workshop, became a citizen of Basel, and married the widow Elsbeth Schmid, who bore him four children. He painted altarpieces, portraits, and murals and made designs for woodcuts, stained glass, and jewelry. Among his patrons was Erasmus of Rotterdam, who had settled in Basel in 1521. In 1524 Holbein visited France. Holbein gave up his workshop in Basel in 1526 and went to England, armed with a letter of introduction from Erasmus to Sir Thomas More, who received him warmly. Holbein quickly achieved fame and financial success. In 1528 he returned to Basel, where he bought property and received commissions from the city council, Basel publishers, Erasmus, and others. However, with iconoclastic riots instigated by fanatic Protestants, Basel hardly offered the professional security that Holbein desired. In 1532 Holbein returned to England and settled permanently in London, although he left his family in Basel, retained his Basel citizenship, and visited Basel in 1538. He was patronized especially by country gentlemen from Norfolk, German merchants from the Steel Yard in London, and King Henry VIII and his court. Holbein died in London between Oct. 7 and Nov. 29, 1543. With few exceptions, Holbein's work falls naturally into the four periods corresponding to his alternate residences in Basel and London. His earliest extant work is a tabletop with trompe l'oeil motifs (1515) painted for the Swiss standard-bearer Hans Baer. Other notable works of the first Basel period are a diptych of Burgomaster Jakob Meyer zum Hasen and his wife, Dorothea Kannengiesser (1516); a portrait of Bonifacius Amerbach (1519); an unsparingly realistic Dead Christ (1521); a Madonna and Child Enthroned with Two Saints (1522); several portraits of Erasmus, of which the one in Paris (1523 or shortly after), with its accurate observation of the scholar's concentrated attitude and frail person and its beautifully balanced composition, is particularly outstanding; and woodcuts, among which the series of the Dance of Death (ca. 1521-1525, though not published until 1538) represents one of the high points of the artist's graphic oeuvre. Probably about 1520 Holbein painted an altarpiece, the Last Supper, now somewhat cut down, which is based on Leonardo da Vinci's famous painting, and four panels with eight scenes of the Passion of Christ (possibly the shutters of the Last Supper altarpiece), which contain further reminiscences of Italian painting, particularly Andrea Mantegna, the Lombard school, and Raphael, but with lighting effects that are characteristically northern. His two portraits of Magdalena Offenburg, as Laïs of Corinth and Venus with Cupid (1526),