Word: holbein
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...selection of drawings touches great names an types in this field. Typical of the Florentines are the figures by Fillipino Lippi and Andrea del Sarto; of the Venetians, a boarded head by Carpaccio. Among the Germans are two Durers, and a follower of Holbein. The French are represented in their classic vein by the revered Claude and Poussin, in their elegance by Watteau and Fragonard...
...Holbein's Edward VI as a Child was painted by order of the little Prince's mother, Jane Seymour, in 1538 as a New Year's present for Henry VIII. Hanging in Windsor Castle for years, it is believed that either George I or George II took it to Hanover. There it passed to the Duke of Cumberland-Brunswick and eventually to Knoedler & Co. who sold it to Mr. Mellon...
...Otto ever gets a chance to walk into his museum, he will be able to see art works dating from an Egyptian 1900 B. C. tomb to paintings of the 18th Century Dutch School. He will be able to boast of his collections of Dürer, Rembrandt, Holbein, Rubens, Velasquez, and the world's finest Breughels. He may point to his Raphael Madonna as one of the world's very best. In one of his armor rooms, the finest save for Madrid's, he will see ancient Turkish bridles and reins studded with emeralds the size...
...fact that fat, squashy Charles Laughton looks almost exactly like Holbein's portrait of Henry VIII is really a very trivial aid to this picture. Laughton gives all his impersonations a preternatural vitality and if he had happened to look otherwise, it would merely have seemed that Holbein had been inaccurate. The whole picture, directed by Alexander Korda, reflects the validity of his acting: it is a shiny, caustic, understanding portrait of a personage as comprehensible as he is extraordinary. Elsa Lanchester (Mrs. Charles Laughton) does, next to her husband, the cleverest acting in the picture. Binnie Barnes...
...collection is varied in its contents. Some are done by Timothy Cole, some by Sargent, some are reproductions from Holbein, some by less well-known artists...