Movement, Style, School or Type of Art:
Northern Renaissance
Year and Place of Birth:
1497 or 98, Augsburg, Bavaria
Life:
As the son of a master painter, Holbein the Younger received early and thorough training as an artist. His earlier work (in Basel) consisted of mainly religious images. After 1528, he was strictly a portrait painter in London, where his careful attention to detail and use of color kept him in great demand.
Important Works:
- Portrait of Erasmus, 1523
- Madonna of the Burgomeister Meyer, 1526
- Sir Thomas More, 1527
- Portrait of Henry VIII, 1540
Date and Place of Death:
1543, London, England, of the plague
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