_Imago ad vivam effigiem expressa Nicolai Kratzeri monacensis qui bavarus erat Quadragessimum annum tempore illo complebat. 1528._ [Illustration: PLATE XXIV.—HANS HOLBEIN THE YOUNGER (1497-1543) GERMAN SCHOOL No. 2715.—PORTRAIT OF ERASMUS (Portrait de Didier Érasme) The Humanist is seen at half length and in forefile to the left, before a table at which he is writing. He wears a fur-lined coat and a dark cap. A green figured curtain forms the background. Painted in oil on panel. 1 ft. 4¾ in. × 1 ft. 0¾ in. (0·42 × 0·32.)] Although decidedly superior to another version of the same picture at Lambeth Palace, the _Portrait of William Warham, Archbishop of Canterbury_ (No. 2714), which bears the inscription, ANNO. Dm. MDXXVII. ETATIS. SVE, LXX., cannot without hesitation be accepted as an original work. It lacks, at any rate, the _finesse_ of the beautiful drawing at Windsor Castle, upon which it is evidently based. To the same year belongs the _Portrait of Sir Richard Southwell_ (No. 2719), to whose treacherous accusation was due the execution of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey. But this picture, again, is only a replica, by an inferior hand, of the magnificent portrait in the Uffizi Gallery (No. 765). An inscription in the background, at both sides of the head, reads: on the left: X.^O IVLII. ANNO. and on the right: ETATIS SVÆ H. VIII. XXVIII. ANNO XXXIII. It would thus appear that the picture was painted in 1537, the twenty-eighth year of Henry VIII.’s reign. The _Portrait of a Man holding a Carnation and a Rosary_ (No. 2720) is a picture of poor quality and has no connection whatever with Holbein. PORTRAIT OF ANNE OF CLEVES