. Historical portraits ... 2 W O X tf) ho a 5 O « 3 E M <D o I 5 ■- 3 .5 Q E Eo. >. u _u n( O ,^ f« o a, ^^ ^^ 14 w 5 o < rt d. Z a o Cii ■«-» o ■= n! u o D. V *-* E o u, 129 HANS HOLBEIN (1497-1543) the great German painter has no claim to a place in a collectionof English portraits, except that he was the first really great artistto paint them. He came to England, with a recommendation fromErasmus to Sir Thomas More, in 1526 or 1527, and at once obtainedenormous success. More himself in the latter year being his firstknown sitter. Warham, Fisher, Elyot and many others followedimmedi
. Historical portraits ... 2 W O X tf) ho a 5 O « 3 E M <D o I 5 ■- 3 .5 Q E Eo. >. u _u n( O ,^ f« o a, ^^ ^^ 14 w 5 o < rt d. Z a o Cii ■«-» o ■= n! u o D. V *-* E o u, 129 HANS HOLBEIN (1497-1543) the great German painter has no claim to a place in a collectionof English portraits, except that he was the first really great artistto paint them. He came to England, with a recommendation fromErasmus to Sir Thomas More, in 1526 or 1527, and at once obtainedenormous success. More himself in the latter year being his firstknown sitter. Warham, Fisher, Elyot and many others followedimmediately; from 1528-1532 the artist was back in Germany,but in 1533 he painted in England the great work known as TheAmbassadors, now in our National Gallery. He also designed thetitle-page to the first two English Bibles (Coverdales andCranmers).He painted Thomas Cromwell, Jane Seymour and a famous familygroup of the royal family, which perished in a fire at Whitehall in1698. In 1538 Henry VIII sent him to Brussels to paint a widowedDuchess of Milan, with a view to matrimon
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