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| Hans Holbein Joan, Lady Meutas ca. 1536-43 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Hans Holbein Lady Ratcliffe ca. 1532-43 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Hans Holbein Sir Nicholas Poyntz ca. 1532-43 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Hans Holbein Lady Lister ca. 1532-43 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
"Hans Holbein (1497-1543) was born in southern Germany. In 1516 he moved to the Swiss city of Basel where he worked as a portraitist, book illustrator, and designer of stained glass. Among his employers was the prolific publisher Johannes Froben, who commissioned illustrations for books by Sir Thomas More and Desiderius Erasmus. By 1526 religious changes in Basel had led to a reduced market for art, driving Holbein to seek work in London. With him he carried an introduction from Erasmus to More, who gave the artist his first English commissions. Apart from a return to Basel between 1528 and 1532, Holbein spent the rest of his life in England. By 1536 he had been appointed King's Painter to Henry VIII. Holbein made chalk drawings of his sitters from life, usually working these up into finished oils. An important group of Holbein's drawings and paintings survives in the Royal Collection."
– from curator's notes at the Royal Collection
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| Hans Holbein George Brooke, 9th Baron Cobham ca. 1532-43 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Hans Holbein Cicely Heron ca. 1526-27 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Hans Holbein An unknown man 1535 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Hans Holbein William Parr, later Marquess of Northampton ca. 1538-42 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Hans Holbein Anne Cresacre ca. 1527 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Hans Holbein Queen Anne Boleyn ca. 1533-36 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Hans Holbein Queen Jane Seymour ca. 1536-37 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Hans Holbein Sir Thomas Lestrange ca. 1536 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Hans Holbein An unknown woman ca. 1532-43 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Hans Holbein An unknown woman ca. 1532-43 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |