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He has been called ‘the widest king in Christendom’ – and the fact that this vision of Henry VIII lives on in history is largely due to one German painter: Hans Holbein the Younger.
The exhibition will include the largest number of works by Hans Holbein the Younger to be shown together in the UK for more than 15 years. The artist was Henry VIII's painter and the most ...
All that remains of a huge long-lost life-sized portrait of Henry VIII is going on show ... Gallery to the National Gallery. The cartoon by Hans Holbein the Younger is being loaned to its ...
Thanks to a plethora of blockbuster films and TV adaptations, Henry VIII and his six wives are ... Thankfully Henry employed the German born Hans Holbein as the go-to artist to sketch and paint ...
There’s a new old painter in town: Hans Holbein the Younger ... while in service to England’s Henry VIII. Why? Holbein is an awkward fit in art history—overqualified, in a way, for the ...
The Hartford museum is hosting an event called Gallery Talk – Hans Holbein’s Portrait of Henry VIII with Matthew Hargraves and Oliver Tostmann – on May 3. Wadsworth said the Henry VIII ...
This 1540 miniature by Hans Holbein may depict the Tudor king's fourth wife, Anne of Cleves, not his fifth wife, Catherine Howard. Royal Collection Trust / © Her ...
I’m speaking, of course, of Hans Holbein the Younger ... where he served as court painter to King Henry VIII, Holbein made his mark with portraits of nobles, merchants, and scholars.
Hans Holbein the Younger's 1539 portrait of Anne ... the public can see Anne of Cleves as Henry VIII first saw her: resplendent in red velvet against a brilliant blue backdrop, her hazel eyes ...
He has been called ‘the widest king in Christendom’ – and the fact that this vision of Henry VIII lives on in history is largely due to one German painter: Hans Holbein the Younger.