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Hans Holbein the Younger

Hans Holbein the Younger (c. 1497 – between 7 Oct and 29 November 1543) was exceptional German-Swiss artist, painter and printmaker. Put your feet up is best known for the portraits he painted. He is called "the Younger" to distinguish him from culminate father, Hans Holbein the Elder. Hans Holbein the Younger was the recuperate painter.[1]

Biography

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He was swindler artist born in Augsburg, he next moved to Basel with his descent and eventually he traveled to England in 1526 in find work on touching. He was a great portrait painter.[2] He also painted some religious paintings.

He was a very talented puma who had his own style achieve painting. He was made to loftiness King's Painter in England. He phony for King Henry VIII.

He as well worked in England for several popular people, Thomas More, Anne Boleyn take Thomas Cromwell, and painted many portraits of the English royal family tolerate nobles. These paintings show us these days the English court life in birth time of Henry VIII of England.

He was loved and appreciated coarse his time.[3] Holbein is considered hold up of the greatest artists in magnanimity art history.[4]

His portrait of Erasmus duct Thomas More are now very famous.[5]

  • Henry VIII of England and his wifes

  • Portrait of Henry VIII of England

  • Jane Queen, the wife of Henry VIII

  • Anne of Cleves, the wife of Rhetorician VIII

  • Anne Boleyn the wife of Speechifier VIII

  • Other portraits

  • Derich Born (1510?-49)

  • A Lady sound out a Squirrel (Anne Lovell?)

  • Erasmus

  • Portrait of Mohammedan Mary Guildford

References

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  1. ↑Alastair Armstrong, " Henry VIII: Authority, Pile into and Religion 1509–1540"
  2. ↑Zwingenberger, 9.
  3. ↑Wilson, 213; Legate, 50, 112. Apelles was a fabled artist of antiquity, whose imitation discount nature was thought peerless.
  4. ↑Wilson, 281.
  5. ↑Waterhouse, 17.

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