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Artist Profile: Hans Holbein the Younger

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Hans Holbein - Anne of Cleves 1538-39

Anne of Cleves (1538-39 Musee du Louvre, Paris);

Scan © Mark Harden, used with permission
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)

Year and Place of Death:

1543, London, England, of the Plague

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