. Sketches of great painters for young people. edding. Suddenly she looked up, and her eyesmet a portrait of the condemned man painted by Hol-bein. It looked so lifelike that the queen was enraged,and, seizing it, she threw it out of a window, crying, That man seems still to be alive ! He also painted portraits of Mores friends, Sir ThomasWyatt, the Archbishop of Canterbury, and Sir HenryGuilford. Two other celebrated portraits are those of SirBryan Tuke and of Nicholas Kratzer, who was the astron-omer of Henry VIII. The latter picture is at the Louvre,and it represents the astronomer surround
. Sketches of great painters for young people. edding. Suddenly she looked up, and her eyesmet a portrait of the condemned man painted by Hol-bein. It looked so lifelike that the queen was enraged,and, seizing it, she threw it out of a window, crying, That man seems still to be alive ! He also painted portraits of Mores friends, Sir ThomasWyatt, the Archbishop of Canterbury, and Sir HenryGuilford. Two other celebrated portraits are those of SirBryan Tuke and of Nicholas Kratzer, who was the astron-omer of Henry VIII. The latter picture is at the Louvre,and it represents the astronomer surrounded by his in-struments and absorbed in some scientific problem. About 1528 Holbein returned to Basle. He thenpainted a picture of his family, which is still in the townmuseum. He was also allowed to finish the decorationsfor the Town Hall. Times were still very hard atBasle, however, and religious disturbances were so greatthat Erasmus was obliged to leave the town. Holbeindid not enjoy the strife and discord, and longed to goback to Nicholas Kratzek. HOLBEIN. 187 The next year, on his return to England, he found thathis friend, the chancellor, had been deposed from officeand could no longer assist him by his patronage. Hol-bein had, however, won so many friends in London thathe felt sure of employment. He lived for some timeamong his compatriots, some German merchants of theSteelyard, and for them he painted a number of por-traits. The most interesting of these is one of GeorgeGyzen, now at Berlin. John Ruskin has given an appreciative descriptionof this work, and has pointed out certain of the paint-ers greatest qualities. He says: In the portrait ofthe Hausmann, George Gyzen, every accessory is per-fect with a fine perfection : the carnations in the glassvase by his side, the ball of gold chased with blueenamel, suspended on the wall, the books, the steelyard,the papers on the table, the seal ring with its quarteredbearings, all intensely there and there in beauty
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