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
Reproduced in F. R. Earp’s Catalogue of the collection, 1902, p. 96;
and in _Principal Pictures of the Fitzwilliam Museum_, Gowan & Grey,
Ltd., p. 85.
Footnote 436:
Reproduced in the Catalogue, Pl. v.
Footnote 437:
See _Burlington Catalogue_, p. 86. In one of his articles on the
Arundel Collection (see _Burlington Magazine_, vol. xxi., August 1912,
p. 257), Mr. Lionel Cust speaks of this head of the Earl, at Hardwick
Hall, as “perhaps by Holbein himself,” and states that, according to
Vertue, in the sale of the Earl of Oxford’s pictures, 1741, there was
sold “Lord Fitzwilliams,” a head by Holbein, for fifteen guineas.
Footnote 438:
“Ritratto de ffitzwilliams Conte de Southampton,” and “Conte de
Southampton Fitzwilliams.”
In 1542 John Leland’s “Naeniae” on the death of Sir Thomas Wyat was
published, with the small circular woodcut of the poet after a drawing
by Holbein, which has been already described;[439] but otherwise the
only dated portrait of this year is the one of the young man with the
falcon at the Hague, though there are several which must have been
painted shortly before his death. Those of Dr. John Chamber and Sir
William Butts and his wife must have been produced in 1542 or the
earlier half of 1543, while others, such as the “Elderly Man” at Berlin,
the small portrait of an English lady at Vienna, and the Simon George at
Frankfurt, may be attributed with some certainty to the last seven or
eight years of Holbein’s life. It is probable, too, that he painted at
about this time another portrait of the Prince of Wales. No such
painting now exists, but the full-faced head with a cap in the Windsor
Collection[440] represents Edward as a boy of about five or six years of
age, and certainly older than in the Hanover picture, while in the
profile head with cap and feather in the same collection of
drawings,[441] which forms the basis of numerous portraits in the
National Portrait Gallery and elsewhere, the boy seems even older,
though he was only six at the time of Holbein’s death.
Footnote 439:
See p. 80.
Footnote 440:
Woltmann, 327; Wornum, ii. 2; Holmes, not included. See above, p. 167.
Footnote 441:
Woltmann, 328; Wornum, ii. 3; Holmes, ii. 1. See above, p. 167.
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