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
No less than five miniatures of the King were lent to the Burlington
Fine Arts Club Exhibition by the Duke of Buccleuch, two of which are
attributed to Holbein. One is a reduced copy of Holbein’s portrait of
Henry belonging to Earl Spencer (Case C, 6). A second[527] is inscribed
“H.R. VIII. AN^O XXXV,” and appears to be the original from which the
Windsor miniature, described above, was copied (Case C, 7). It was
formerly in the Magniac Collection. The catalogue suggests that it is
possibly the work of an illuminator of the French school. A third (Case
C, 25), with a very similar inscription, is evidently a second copy of
the same miniature. The fourth (Case C, 8 (D)), forms one of a series of
eight in an ebony frame, which were formerly in the collection of
Charles I. It is a full-face, with grey beard, and, according to the
royal catalogue, was “done by Hans Holbein, given to the King by my Lord
Suffolk.”[528] The companion miniatures represent Henry VII, Elizabeth
of York (“copied by Hoskins after an ancient ould coloured piece”),
Katherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn (also copied by John Hoskins “after an
ould colured piece”), Queen Mary (“done by Ant. More”), Edward VI, and
Queen Elizabeth (“done by Old Hilliard”). The “Henry VIII” is fine, and
in the Burlington catalogue is attributed to Holbein, but it is more
probably another copy from “an ould coloured piece” by the master. It
has considerable resemblance to the fifth miniature from Montagu
House[529] (Case C, 2), also ascribed to Holbein, but not by him.
Footnote 527:
Reproduced in the _Burlington Fine Arts Club Catalogue_, Pl. xxxiii.
Footnote 528:
Reproduced by Williamson, _Hist. Portrait Miniatures_, Pl. ii. 6.
Footnote 529:
Reproduced in the _Burlington Fine Arts Club Catalogue_, Pl. xxxiii.
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