Holbein

Name: Holbein
Author: Bensusan, S. L. (Samuel Levy)
Bensusan, S. L. (Samuel Levy)
Holbein, Hans, 1497-1543
He worked for about thirty years in the light of history for the "Virgin
and Child," the picture with panels in the Renaissance mood is dated
1514, and the picture of Dr. Chambers belongs to the early forties. To
sum up his known achievements with no more than a brief description would
exhaust all the pages of this little sketch. His work retains much of
its freshness, although time and the restorer have combined to do it
wrong; and there are pictures that pass for the work of Holbein's hand,
though it is more than likely that he never saw them. He must have been
a man of infinite capacity, untiring industry, and considerable strength
of character; he owed little to outside help, for when he left Augsburg
for Basle he was almost without friends and influence, while, when he
left London for the bourn from which no traveller returns, he had made
a reputation that has lasted to this hour, and will never be destroyed
while western civilisation endures.

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In The Same Series

  Artist.               Author.

  VELAZQUEZ.            S. L. Bensusan.
  REYNOLDS.             S. L. Bensusan.
  TURNER.               C. Lewis Hind.
  ROMNEY.               C. Lewis Hind.
  GREUZE.               Alys Eyre Macklin.
  BOTTICELLI.           Henry B. Binns.
  ROSSETTI.             Lucien Pissarro.
  BELLINI.              George Hay.
  FRA ANGELICO.         James Mason.
  REMBRANDT.            Josef Israels.
  LEIGHTON.             A. Lys Baldry.
  RAPHAEL.              Paul G. Konody.
  HOLMAN HUNT.          Mary E. Coleridge.
  TITIAN.               S. L. Bensusan.
  MILLAIS.              A. Lys Baldry.
  CARLO DOLCI.          George Hay.
  GAINSBOROUGH.         Max Rothschild.
  TINTORETTO.           S. L. Bensusan.
  LUINI.                James Mason.
  FRANZ HALS.           Edgcumbe Staley.
  VAN DYCK.             Percy M. Turner.
  LEONARDO DA VINCI.    M. W. Brockwell.
  RUBENS.               S. L. Bensusan.
  WHISTLER.             T. Martin Wood.
  HOLBEIN.              S. L. Bensusan.


_In Preparation_

  BURNE-JONES.          A. Lys Baldry.
  VIGÉE LE BRUN.        C. Haldane MacFall.
  CHARDIN.              Paul G. Konody.
  J. F. MILLET.         Percy M. Turner.
  MEMLINC.              W. H. James Weale.
  ALBERT DÜRER.         Herbert Furst.
  FRAGONARD.            C. Haldane MacFall.
  CONSTABLE.            C. Lewis Hind.
  RAEBURN.              James L. Caw.
  BOUCHER.              C. Haldane MacFall.
  WATTEAU.              C. Lewis Hind.
  MURILLO.              S. L. Bensusan.


And Others.


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