Hans HolbeinChamberlain, Arthur B. (Arthur Bensley)
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Hans Holbein
Chamberlain, Arthur B. (Arthur Bensley)
Holbein, Hans, 1497-1543
With an elaborate head-dress. Small half-length.
PORTRAIT OF AN ENGLISHMAN, AGED 30, 1534.
PORTRAIT OF A LADY, AGED 28, 1534.
Two small rounds on canvas; portraits of some English courtier and his
wife, the man in a scarlet coat, with the letters H.R. embroidered in
gold.
FRANCE.
_PARIS, LOUVRE._
WILLIAM WAREHAM, ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY, 1527.
A replica of the portrait in Lambeth Palace.
SIR HENRY WYATT, 1527 OR 1528.
The father of Sir Thomas Wyatt, the poet. Formerly called a portrait of
Sir Thomas More. There is a replica of it in the National Gallery of
Ireland.
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS, 1523.
Profile, turned to the left, writing. The oil-study for it is in the
Basle Museum. Probably sent to England for More or Wareham, and
exchanged by Charles I. with Louis XIII. for a _St. John Baptist_, by
Leonardo.
SIR RICHARD SOUTHWELL, 1536.
A replica of the portrait in the Uffizi Gallery, but not so good.
Another copy was exhibited by Mr. H. E. Chetwynd-Stapylton at South
Kensington, 1866.
NICHOLAS KRATZER, OF MUNICH, 1528.
Henry VIII.’s Royal Astronomer.
ANNE OF CLEVES, 1539.
GERMANY.
_BERLIN, ROYAL GALLERY._
GEORG GISZE, OF THE STEELYARD, 1532.
(See illustration and p. 51.)
PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG MAN, AGED 34, 1533.
Said to be a member of the Trelawney family, and perhaps a brother of
the young man whose portrait, dated 1532, is in Count Schönborn’s
Collection, Vienna.
PORTRAIT OF A MAN WITH A LONG BEARD, AGED 54.
Formerly in the possession of Sir J. E. Millais, P.R.A. Painted about
1535 (?).
PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG MAN, AGED 37, 1541.
Probably a Dutchman, of the Vos van Steenwijk family.
_BRUNSWICK GALLERY._
AMBROSIUS (OR CYRIACUS?) FALLEN, OF THE STEELYARD, 1533.
Much repainted.
_CARLSRUHE, KUNSTHALLE._
ST. URSULA WITH THE ARROWS.
ST. GEORGE AND THE DRAGON.
Two panels, evidently parts of an altar-piece, one of them dated 1522.
Some critics doubt the ascription, but they may have been designed by
Holbein and completed by some other painter.
_DARMSTADT, OLD PALACE._
THE MEYER MADONNA, ABOUT 1526.
(See illustration and p. 44.)
PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG MAN, 1515.
Dated and signed “H. H.”
_DRESDEN GALLERY._
THOMAS GODSALVE, OF NORWICH, AND HIS SON, SIR JOHN GODSALVE, 1528.
Two portraits on one panel. There is a fine drawing of Sir John in the
Windsor collection.
CHARLES DE SOLIER, COMTE DE MORETTE, OF PIEDMONT, ABOUT 1534.
THE MEYER MADONNA.
A copy, with alterations, of the Darmstadt picture. (See p. 45.)
The Dresden Gallery also possesses copies of Erasmus and Henry VIII.,
after Holbein, and a picture, _The Death of Virginia_, said to be after
some lost original.
_FRANKFORT, STÄDEL INSTITUTE._
SIMON GEORGE, OF CORNWALL.
_FREIBURG-IM-BREISGAU, MINSTER._
THE NATIVITY.
THE ADORATION OF THE MAGI.
Altar-panels, painted for Hans Oberriedt, of Basle.
_HANOVER, ROYAL GALLERY._
EDWARD VI. WHEN PRINCE, 1538.
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