Hans Holbein the younger . Longford Castle, is painted withthe utmost perfection, in dark but warm tones ; it almost surpassesthe other both in colouring and in its mastery of expression. Thefeatures are firmly set, the sitters thoughts entirely concentratedon his work, so that he is oblivious to all else but the matter in drawing of the hands is masterly. The complexion is warm 1 See Colvin, Burlington Magazine, vol. xvi. Nov. 1909, p. 71. * Woltmann, 224. Reproduced by Davies,p. 108 ; Knackfuss, fig. 52 ; Sir C. Phillips, PictureGallery of Charles I, Portfolio Monograph, 1896, p. 23
Hans Holbein the younger . Longford Castle, is painted withthe utmost perfection, in dark but warm tones ; it almost surpassesthe other both in colouring and in its mastery of expression. Thefeatures are firmly set, the sitters thoughts entirely concentratedon his work, so that he is oblivious to all else but the matter in drawing of the hands is masterly. The complexion is warm 1 See Colvin, Burlington Magazine, vol. xvi. Nov. 1909, p. 71. * Woltmann, 224. Reproduced by Davies,p. 108 ; Knackfuss, fig. 52 ; Sir C. Phillips, PictureGallery of Charles I, Portfolio Monograph, 1896, p. 23; Ganz, Holbein, p. 39. 3 The study for this hand, in the Louvre, has been already mentioned (see PI. 55). cv> ^ C &* H»l n p*. 2 co 2 > 5sq | W 0 & uJ 38 O 03 £ A hC 0 3 0 > w »* I M ». q o t^ h4 3 $2 Ki V Q A Hco ru H > CO S3 ?^ S CO ?§ W fc *^ o 8 1/3 ^3 c« Q s 2 < o E-i H-) r*J pA o Ph & « >> i 3 V3 CO. ??.I/..II ,.I Vol. I., Plate 56 ERASMUS 1523Louvre, Paris
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