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Holbein had deftly survived the downfall of his first two great patrons, Thomas More and Anne Boleyn, but Cromwell's sudden arrest and execution on trumped-up charges of heresy and treason in 1540 undoubtedly damaged his career.
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") Erasmus spoke favourably of Holbein as an artist and person, but later criticized Holbein whom he had accused of sponging off of various patrons to whom Erasmus had recommended, for purposes more of monetary gain than artistic endeavor.
His sons Hans Holbein the Younger and Ambrosius Holbein had their first painting lessons from him.
More was executed in 1535, along with John Fisher, whose portrait Holbein had also drawn.
The king's marriage in July 1543 to the reformist Catherine Parr, whose brother Holbein had painted in 1541, established Denny's party in power.
Apart from one brief visit, Holbein had lived apart from Elsbeth since 1532.
Describing himself as " servant to the king's majesty ", Holbein had made his will on 7 October at his home in Aldgate.
On New Year's Day 1540, the King met her at Rochester and was chagrined to find that she was not the beauty Holbein had depicted in his portrait of her.
In New York's Frick Collection, two portraits by Holbein hang facing each other on the same wall of the Living Hall, one depicting Thomas Cromwell, the other Thomas More, whose execution he had procured.
In 1728, she rediscovered sets of sketches by Leonardo da Vinci and Hans Holbein that had been hidden in a drawer since the reign of William III.
Victorian scholars had identified a portrait ( shown above ) by Hans Holbein the Younger as a likeness of Catherine Howard.
Hans Holbein the Younger worked until 1526 in Basel ; his high renaissance style had a profound influence on Swiss painters.
He had a plan: he let Holbein eat peacefully at the control because he knew that a real champion, Lewis Stroud, was waiting to show him the way out of town and that, with him as a precious, fast and durable pacer he could build up the lead he needed to win the race.
In 1541, Lord Charles Brandon and his older brother Lord Henry Brandon had their miniatures painted by Hans Holbein the Younger.
He had his portrait painted by Hans Holbein the Younger in 1543, and was knighted the following year.
Holbein and survived
" Beside the Banqueting House, some buildings survived in Scotland Yard and some facing the Park, along with the so-called Holbein Gate, eventually demolished in 1769.
Holbein painted a portrait of him, c. 1522-23, probably as a pair with one of Erasmus ; the original has not survived but a number of copies have.
Holbein and first
Marginal drawing of Folly by Hans Holbein in the first edition of Erasmus's Praise of Folly, 1515
She bore Holbein a son of his own, Philipp, in their first year of marriage.
In 1523, Holbein painted his first portraits of the great Renaissance scholar Erasmus, who required likenesses to send to his friends and admirers throughout Europe.
During this first stay in England, Holbein worked largely for a humanist circle with ties to Erasmus.
The first influence on Holbein was his father.
Hans Holbein the Younger | Hans Holbein's witty marginal drawing of Folly ( 1515 ), in the first edition, a copy owned by Erasmus himself ( Kupferstichkabinett, Basel )
Wilton House, one of England's grandest houses, is in a remarkably similar vein ; although, while the Drydens, mere squires, at Canons Ashby employed a local architect, at Wilton the mighty Earls of Pembroke employed the finest architects of the day: first Holbein, 150 years later Inigo Jones, and then Wyatt followed by Chambers.
Their editions include the first Latin edition of Georgius Agricola's De Re Metallica in 1556, and some of them incorporate artwork by Hans Holbein the Younger.
Holbein and two
Hans Holbein may refer to two German painters:
* Hans Holbein the Younger ( c. 1497 – 1543 ), better known of the two, court artist to King Henry VIII of England
Anne was the subject of two portraits by Hans Holbein who painted her in 1539.
For the guildhall of the Steelyard Holbein painted two monumental allegories, " The Triumph of Wealth " and " The Triumph of Poverty ", both now lost.
About two years later, Holbein painted a portrait of the prince, clutching a sceptre-like gold rattle.
Holbein managed to secure commissions among those courtiers who now jockeyed for power, in particular from Anthony Denny, one of the two chief gentlemen of the bedchamber.
* A set of Portraits by Hans Holbein the Younger, including two portraits of Henry and Charles Brandon, sons of Henry VIII ; Thomas More, the Dukes of Suffolk, and Lady Meutas
Period artists such as Hans Holbein attest to the fact that two such huge pike columns crashing into each other could result in a maelstrom of battle, and ghastly casualties on both sides.
Leonardo da Vinci's " Lady with an Ermine " ( 1489 – 90 ), along with two portraits by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo and Hans Holbein the Younger, helped inspire Pullman's " dæmon " concept.
Holbein and great
Holbein has also been described as a great " one-off " of art history, since he founded no school.
After his death, some of his work was lost, but much was collected, and by the 19th century, Holbein was recognised among the great portrait masters.
However, the great entrance porch to the new mansion, removed from the house and later transformed into a garden pavilion in the 19th century, is to this day known as the " Holbein Porch " — a perfect example of the blending of the older Gothic and the brand-new Renaissance style.
If not by Holbein, it is certainly by the hand of a great master.
Holbein and patrons
When the Reformation reached Basel, Holbein worked for reformist clients while continuing to serve traditional religious patrons.
Holbein and Thomas
Study for a portrait of Thomas More's family, c. 1527, by Hans Holbein the Younger
Rowland Lockey after Hans Holbein the Younger, The Family of Sir Thomas More, c. 1594
When Holbein decided to seek employment in England in 1526, Erasmus recommended him to his friend the statesman and scholar Thomas More.
Portrait of Sir Thomas More ( Holbein ) | Portrait of Sir Thomas More, 1527.
At the same time, Holbein worked for Thomas Cromwell as he masterminded Henry VIII's reformation.
Thomas Cromwell was a patron of Hans Holbein the Younger, as were Sir Thomas More and Anne Boleyn.
Miniaturists represented in the collection include Jean Bourdichon, Hans Holbein the Younger, Nicholas Hilliard, Isaac Oliver, Peter Oliver, Jean Petitot, Alexander Cooper, Samuel Cooper, Thomas Flatman, Rosalba Carriera, Christian Friedrich Zincke, George Engleheart, John Smart, Richard Cosway & William Charles Ross.
Woodcut by Hans Holbein the Younger from Leland's Naenia ( 1542 ), showing Thomas Wyatt ( poet ) | Sir Thomas Wyatt
* 1527 in art-Birth of Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Death of Niccolò Machiavelli ; Hans Holbein the Younger completes his Portrait of Sir Thomas More
Sir Thomas Elyot drawn by Holbein
Henry VIII of England | Henry VIII presents the Barber-Surgeons Charter to Thomas Vicary. 1736 engraving by Bernard Baron ( 1736 ); after Hans Holbein the Younger.
* The Complete Works of Thomas Lovell Beddoes edited with a memoir by Sir Edmund Gosse and decorated by the Dance of Death of Holbein ( 1928 ) editor
File: Tudor Rose from Holbein's Portrait of More. jpg | The Tudor rose used on the chain in the portrait of Sir Thomas More by Hans Holbein the Younger
Portrait of Margaret Roper, from a 1593 reproduction of a now-lost Hans Holbein the Younger | Hans Holbein portrait of all of the women of Thomas More's family.
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