Hans Holbein the Younger

Self-portrait by Hans Holbein the Younger

Hans Holbein the Younger (c. 1497 – between 7 October and 29 November 1543) was a German-Swiss artist, painter and printmaker. He is best known for the portraits he painted. He is called "the Younger" to distinguish him from his father, Hans Holbein the Elder. Hans Holbein the Younger was the better painter.

Biography

He was an artist born in Augsburg, he later moved to Basel with his family and eventually he traveled to England in 1526 in find work there. He was a great portrait painter. He also painted some religious paintings.

He was a very talented painter who had his own style of painting. He was made to the King's Painter in England. He worked for King Henry VIII.

He also worked in England for several famous people, Thomas More, Anne Boleyn and Thomas Cromwell, and painted many portraits of the English royal family and nobles. These paintings show us today the English court life in the time of Henry VIII of England.

He was loved and appreciated by his time. Holbein is considered one of the greatest artists in the art history.

His portrait of Erasmus and Thomas More are now very famous.

• Henry VIII of England and his wifes
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  Portrait of Henry VIII of England

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  Jane Seymour, the wife of Henry VIII

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  Anne of Cleves, the wife of Henry VIII

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  Anne Boleyn the wife of Henry VIII

• Other portraits
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  Derich Born (1510?-49)

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  A Lady with a Squirrel (Anne Lovell?)

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  Erasmus

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  Portrait of Lady Mary Guildford

Hans Holbein The Younger Media

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  Hans Holbein's home during his time in Basel, Switzerland

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  A detail of Hans Holbein the Elder's 1504 altar-piece triptych Basilica of St. Paul, showing portraits of the artist and his two sons Hans (left) and Ambrosius (right)

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  Hans Holbein's marginal drawing of Folly (1515), in the first edition, a copy owned by Erasmus himself (Kupferstichkabinett, Basel)

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  Portrait of Sir Thomas More, 1527. Oil and tempera on oak, Frick Collection, New York City

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  Portrait of the Artist's Family, c. 1528. Oil and tempera on paper, cut out and mounted on wood. Kunstmuseum Basel.

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  Double Portrait of Jean de Dinteville and Georges de Selve ("The Ambassadors"), 1533; oil and tempera on oak, National Gallery, London

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  Copy in oils of the 1536-1537 Whitehall mural, this copy was commissioned by Charles II in 1667;, Left to right Henry VIII; Henry VII; Elizabeth of York; Jane Seymour

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