Word: duren
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...known it was the Tudor tycoon Thomas Cromwell (whose portrait by Holbein now hangs in Manhattan's Frick Gallery) who first introduced this skillful German to bluff King Hal. Henry took to Holbein immediately, made him his court painter in 1537, trusted him sufficiently to send him to Duren in 1539 to paint a reportorial portrait of Anne of Cleves whom Henry was thinking of making his fourth wife...