Hans Holbein the younger . wards completion, but alsopainted portraits of Sir Thomas and Lady More, Archbishop Warham,Sir Henry and Lady Guldeford, Thomas and John Godsalve, NiklausKratzer, Sir Henry Wyat, and Sir Bryan Tuke, so that his outputwas a considerable one. In addition to these, there is the portrait of Reskimer, and possiblyothers of Margaret Roper, Sir Thomas and Lady Elyot, and Sir NicholasCarew,3 while it is almost certain that he also painted one of BishopFisher, although the drawing for it is now the only record whichremains. This list, which includes fourteen or more portraits
Hans Holbein the younger . wards completion, but alsopainted portraits of Sir Thomas and Lady More, Archbishop Warham,Sir Henry and Lady Guldeford, Thomas and John Godsalve, NiklausKratzer, Sir Henry Wyat, and Sir Bryan Tuke, so that his outputwas a considerable one. In addition to these, there is the portrait of Reskimer, and possiblyothers of Margaret Roper, Sir Thomas and Lady Elyot, and Sir NicholasCarew,3 while it is almost certain that he also painted one of BishopFisher, although the drawing for it is now the only record whichremains. This list, which includes fourteen or more portraits, showsthat Holbein, in spite of lack of official recognition from the King,received sufficient patronage from the More circle and the Court tokeep him very busily and remuneratively occupied. 1 Woltmann, 141. Reproduced by Strong in Drawings, &c, 1902, PI. lv.; Burlington Maga-zine, vol. i., May 1903, p. 354. 2 Reproduced by Law, Holbeiris Pictures, &c, PI. iv. ; Knackfuss, fig. 99. 3 See Vol. 87-9. VOL. CHAPTER XV THE RETURN TO BASEL (i528-1532) Return to Basel and purchase of a house—Iconoclastic outbreaks in that city—Destruction ofsacred paintings and sculptures—Lack of work, and death or absence of old patrons—Portrait of his wife and children—His relationships with his wife—Completion of the wall-paintings in the Council Chamber of the Town Hall— Rehoboam rebuking the Elders — Meeting of Samuel and Saul—Portrait of Erasmus painted in Freiburg—Book illustrations—Repainting the faces of the clock on the Rhine Gate—Holbeins return to England. |NTIL the discovery in 1870, by Dr. Edouard His-Heusler,1 that Holbein purchased a house in Basel inAugust 1528, it was generally supposed that the painterremained in England until the spring or summer of1529. In September of the latter year Erasmus wroteletters to Sir Thomas More and Margaret Roper thank-ing them very heartily for the drawing of the family picture whichHolbein had brought to him. Thi
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