A descriptive catalogue of the pictures in the Fitzwilliam museum, comp largely from materials supplied by Sidney Colvin .. . Holbein^ CATALOGUE OF PICTURES 97 HOLBEIN. Hans Holbein. German School, 1497—1543. Son of Hans Holbein the elder, born in Augsburg, 1497, but migrated to Basel in1515, or earlier. Here he stayed and was employed in work of several kinds. Besidesportraits and church pictures he executed many wall-paintings for the decoration of theexteriors of houses and rooms, which now survive only in copies or sketches, and designedmany series of wood-cuts for Froben and the other pub
A descriptive catalogue of the pictures in the Fitzwilliam museum, comp largely from materials supplied by Sidney Colvin .. . Holbein^ CATALOGUE OF PICTURES 97 HOLBEIN. Hans Holbein. German School, 1497—1543. Son of Hans Holbein the elder, born in Augsburg, 1497, but migrated to Basel in1515, or earlier. Here he stayed and was employed in work of several kinds. Besidesportraits and church pictures he executed many wall-paintings for the decoration of theexteriors of houses and rooms, which now survive only in copies or sketches, and designedmany series of wood-cuts for Froben and the other publishers of Basel, which was at thistime a centre of Humanism and the residence of Erasmus. In 1526 he went to Englandwith an introduction from Erasmus to Sir Thomas More. In 1528 he returned to Basel,where he completed a series of paintings in the Rathhaus which he had begun before, butcame to England again in 1532. In 1536 he was taken into the service of Henry henceforth resided mainly in England, and died in London of the plague in 1543. Hewas here employed almost wholly in portrait painting, and with incr
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