Hans Holbein the Younger, Volume 2 (of 2)Chamberlain, Arthur B. (Arthur Bensley)
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Hans Holbein the Younger, Volume 2 (of 2)
Chamberlain, Arthur B. (Arthur Bensley)
Holbein, Hans, 1497-1543 -- Criticism and interpretation; Painters -- Germany -- Biography
Another good version of this portrait, with the left hand on the
dagger-cord, is the half-length belonging to the Earl of Yarborough,
while an excellent example of the Warwick Castle type, with a cane
substituted for the dagger, was lent by Lord Sackville to the Burlington
Fine Arts Club in 1909 (No. 21).
There is also an excellent portrait of the Warwick type in the
collection of the Duke of Manchester at Kimbolton Castle.[231] It is on
panel, 35 in. × 25 in., and closely resembles the picture in the
National Portrait Gallery (No. 496) (35⅛ in. × 26¼ in.), which is
attributed to Luke Hornebolt.[232] The latter had at one time a coat of
arms on the frame indicating that it belonged at some period to the
Nassau family. It may have been taken over to Holland at the time of the
marriage of Princess Mary, daughter of Charles I, to William of Orange,
in 1641. There are three other portraits of the King in the National
Portrait Gallery, while other versions or old copies exist at Castle
Howard, and at Serlby, the seat of Viscount Galway. The latter (35 in. ×
27 in.) has an inscription on the background giving the King’s titles
and the date 1547, the year of his death. Another (36 in. × 30 in.), at
one time in the collection of Mr. Henry Willett, and now in the Brighton
Art Gallery, is said to have been taken from a wainscot in King’s Walden
House, Herts, formerly the residence of Anne Boleyn.
Footnote 231:
Tudor Exhibition, 1890, No. 97, and reproduced in the Catalogue, p.
48.
Footnote 232:
Reproduced in Mr. Cust’s illustrated Catalogue of _National Portrait
Gallery_, vol. i. p. 23.
[Sidenote: “HENRY VIII WITH A SCROLL”]
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