Word: holbeins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...object which qualified for the Cook collection appeared in New York's art mart last week, a 16th Century portrait four and one-half inches in diameter. Comedian Cook is an unlikely purchaser, however, for the picture is the only authenticated self-portrait in oils of Hans Holbein the Younger, was last valued at $100,000 and is held for much more than that by the firm of Elkan & Abraham Silberman...
...name Holbein in the Anglo-Saxon world immediately suggests the chunky, bearded younger Hans, favorite portraitist of Henry VIII and immortalizer of Tudor aristocracy. Actually there were four famed German Holbeins: Hans the father, Uncle Sigismund, Brothers Hans and Ambrosius. All of them were famed painters, would have left a deep mark on the history of painting if young Hans had never thought of going to England...
...apprentice in Basle young Holbein found a friend and patron in the great Theologian Erasmus whom he painted many times. The younger Holbein made a name for himself in Basle. Came the depression of the 1520's, however, and Erasmus sent him packing off to England with a letter of introduction to Sir Thomas More (Utopia). Holbein's first series of English portraits were not of court celebrities but of the scholars of More's circle...
...exhibits at the Century of Progress (TIME, May 29, 1933; June 11, 1934). Director Milliken's most resounding brag last week was that 28 of his pictures had never before been exhibited in the U. S., including those by Titian, Raphael, Bellini, Lotto, Veronese, Tintoretto, Andrea del Sarto, Holbein, Rembrandt, Terburg and Henri-Julien Rousseau's famed Night of the Carnival, "one of the greatest sensations of the modern age." All will stay in Cleveland until...
...Windsor is full of old masters and old armor. Holbein and Van Dyck painted the kings. The kings wore the armor. The Windsor collection is notably deficient in both pictures and armor of Britain's most picturesque and warlike kings, the Plantagenets...