. English: Portrait of James Butler, Earl of Ormond, inscribed at the top 'Ormond'. Black and coloured chalks, pen and brush in Indian ink and watercolour on pink-primed paper, × cm, Royal Collection, Windsor Castle. The drawing may have been worked over in the hat and beard by later hands, but in the view of art historian K. T. Parker, 'the drawing of the gown shows a masterly breadth of treatment, and confirms the opinion that in the main the original state has not been modified' (Parker, p. 42). In his 1945 study of the Windsor drawings, Parker doubted the traditional identificati
. English: Portrait of James Butler, Earl of Ormond, inscribed at the top 'Ormond'. Black and coloured chalks, pen and brush in Indian ink and watercolour on pink-primed paper, × cm, Royal Collection, Windsor Castle. The drawing may have been worked over in the hat and beard by later hands, but in the view of art historian K. T. Parker, 'the drawing of the gown shows a masterly breadth of treatment, and confirms the opinion that in the main the original state has not been modified' (Parker, p. 42). In his 1945 study of the Windsor drawings, Parker doubted the traditional identification of the sitter as Anne Boleyn's father, Thomas Boleyn, 1st Earl of Wiltshire, and the sitter is these days accepted as James Butler, 9th Earl of Ormond, once proposed as a match for Boleyn's daughter Anne. References Eric Ives, The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn, Oxford: Blackwell, 2005. ISBN 9781405134637, p. 35 and plate 59. K. T. Parker, The Drawings of Hans Holbein at Windsor Castle, Oxford: Phaidon, 1945, OCLC 822974, p. 42. . circa 1537. Hans Holbein (1497/1498–1543) Alternative names Hans Holbein der Jüngere, Hans Holbein Description German painter and draughtsman Date of birth/death 1497 or 1498 between 7 October 1543 and 29 November 1543 Location of birth/death Augsburg London Work location Basel (1515-1526), Lucerne (1515-1526), Venice (1515), Bologna (1515), Florence (1515), Rome (1515), Venice (1517-1518), Bologna (1517-1518), Florence (1517-1518), Rome (1517-1518), London (1526-1528), Basel (1528-1532), London (1532-1543) Authority control : Q48319 VIAF: 4945401 ISNI: 0000 0001 2098 7816 ULAN: 500005259 LCCN: n81117179 NLA: 36275979 WorldCat 692 James Butler, 9th Earl of Wiltshire & Ormond by Hans Holbein the Younger
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