The original cartoon Holbein had created for ... suggesting that Henry VIII understood the inclination to embellish a portrait. Hans Holbein the Younger spent more than a decade at the court ...

The truth is that Henry VIII was never more than a pale reflection of Henry VII. But, thanks to the genius of Hans Holbein, he has managed to convince posterity otherwise.

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.

Frankfurt am Main German artist Hans Holbein the Younger created his most famous portraits while working as a court painter for Henry VIII in 16th-century England. Holbein took great pains to ...

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 ...

We trust that political art is always bad art, but Hans Holbein the Younger ... to say the least.” Holbein was present at the court of Henry VIII and the creation of modern England.

To accompany the first episode in Andrew Graham-Dixon's Art, Passion & Power series, Isabella Manning of Royal Collection Trust uses Holbein's drawings and paintings to offer insight into the ...

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 ...

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 ...

It was this portrait by Hans Holbein the Younger that famously sealed the deal on the marriage between the then 24-year-old Anne and 48-year-old King Henry VIII. Anne, born Anne von der Mark ...