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
The miniatures of Catherine Howard have been already described.[541] It
is doubtful whether Holbein painted Queen Catherine Parr, for the King
did not marry her until July 12, 1543, only a month or two before the
artist died. A miniature in the possession of Mr. H. Dent-Brocklehurst,
lent by him to the Burlington Fine Arts Club Exhibition (Case B, 7), is
said to represent this Queen and to be by Holbein, but both attributions
are probably incorrect. It is inscribed “ANO XXXII,” and if this is to
be read as the regnal year, it must have been painted between April 1540
and April 1541, and, if it represents this Queen, more than two years
before her marriage. She wears a scarlet, black, and white circular
French hood with black fall, and cloth of gold dress. Sir George Scharf
considered it to be a portrait of Catherine Howard.[542]
Footnote 541:
See pp. 192-193.
Footnote 542:
_Archæologia_, vol. xl., 1866, p. 84.
Several miniatures of Edward VI exist—there are three in the Buccleuch
Collection—though not one has been so far discovered from the hand of
Holbein himself. Most of them represent the boy at a period after
Holbein’s death, and the name of Guillim Stretes has been suggested as
their author.[543] The beautiful little circular drawing of the Prince,
at a very early age, in the Basel Gallery,[544] is apparently Holbein’s
first study for a miniature which has now disappeared, and may have been
the “portrait of the Prince’s Grace” which the artist presented to Henry
VIII on New Year’s Day, 1539.[545]
Footnote 543:
See pp. 168-189.
Footnote 544:
Woltmann, 110 (82).
Footnote 545:
See p. 164.
[Sidenote: LIVINA TEERLINC]
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