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
Thomas, Lord Berkeley, and died in 1557.
Footnote 151:
Woltmann, 301; Wornum, i. 9; Holmes, i. 47. Reproduced by Davies, p.
220; and in _Drawings of Hans Holbein_ (Newnes), Pl. xx. A fine head
of “John Poines,” on a reddish ground, was in the recently dispersed
collection of Mr. J. P. Heseltine.
Footnote 152:
Woltmann, 299, 300; Wornum, i. 19, 36; Holmes, i. 37, ii. 26;
reproduced in _Drawings of Hans Holbein_, Pl. xxii. xxv.
Footnote 153:
This original is in Lord Harrowby's collection. See Appendix (K).
Footnote 154:
Woltmann, 239. Reproduced by Ganz, _Holbein_, p. 217. There was a
portrait of the “Cavaglier Points” in the Arundel Collection.
Footnote 155:
Woltmann, i. pp. 408-9.
Footnote 156:
Wornum, p. 404. It was included in the Exhibition of Miniatures held
at South Kensington in 1865, No. 763.
[Sidenote: PORTRAIT OF NICOLAS BOURBON]
Another portrait painted by Holbein in 1535 was that of the French poet,
Nicolas Bourbon de Vandœuvre, who was in England during that year.
Bourbon was court-poet to Francis I, but eventually fell into disgrace
owing to certain passages in his poems. In 1534 he was thrown into
prison, from which he was finally released through the intervention of
Henry VIII, whose interest in him had been aroused both by Anne Boleyn,
who had made his acquaintance during her residence at the French Court
in her younger days, and also by Henry’s physician, Dr. Butts. To show
his gratitude he came over to England in 1535, and found plenty of
employment in court circles as an instructor of youth. He returned to
France in 1536, leaving many friends behind him. While in London he
appears to have lodged with Cornelis Hayes, one of the chief goldsmiths
employed by the King. Among his more intimate friends were Kratzer and
Holbein, as may be gathered from a letter which he wrote after his
return to France to Thomas Solimar, the King’s secretary, in which he
says:—“I have yet to beg you to greet in my name as heartily as you can
all with whom you know me connected by intercourse and friendship: Mr.
Thomas Cranmer, the Archbishop of Canterbury ... Mr. Cornelius Heyss, my
host, the King’s goldsmith; Mr. Nicolaus Kratzer, the King’s astronomer,
a man who is brimful of wit, jest, and humorous fancies; and Mr. Hans,
the royal painter, the Apelles of our time. I wish them from my heart
all joy and happiness!”[157]
Footnote 157:
Quoted by Woltmann, i. p. 404.
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