Word: holbeins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Christie's first paintings brought absurdly low prices. At his first picture auction, a Holbein went for ?3 18s. and a Titian for two guineas. But Christie's friends, Painters Reynolds and Gainsborough, taught him the value of "stained rags"; Christie's descendants and their successors (the last Christie in the firm died in 1889) have never forgotten the lessons. Paintings now comprise the bulk of their sales. In 1876 Gainsborough's Duchess of Devonshire was auctioned for 10,000 guineas, then a record price. For almost a century each successive Christie sale was described...
...Holbein's Steps. The son of a Devonshire goldsmith, Hilliard was trained as a jeweler, started painting miniatures at 13. He carefully studied the work of Holbein, who had done several miniatures during his stay in England a few years earlier. Before he was 25, Hilliard's work was in demand at court. Gay and handsome, Hilliard enjoyed himself. Of the artist's life at court, he noted: "It behooveth that he be in heart wise, as it will hardly fail that he shall be amorous." He was appointed limner and goldsmith to Queen Elizabeth...
...question by some 15 years. The childhood portrait, made about 1494 by an unknown artist, has in recent years belonged to the collection of the Verney family at Rhianva, Anglesey, England. It shows that even as a child of four, Henry displayed that heavy jowl and petulant mouth which Holbein the Younger was later to immortalize on canvas. FRANKLIN M. WRIGHT Ithaca...
...When I found the green background," said Stannard, "I realized it was pre-Holbein. And then of course when I discovered it was Henry painted at the age of 20, I knew it was too valuable a picture to hang in the house." Stannard had already sold his anonymously painted Henry for "something over a hundred pounds," when it went on show. The stubborn little mouth and wide, shrewd eyes in the portrait were history as well as art; they proved that even at 20, the marrying monarch had looked right for his part: kingly, cruel, and courageous...
...Eton's standards a mere babe in the educational woods, Trinity College (Cambridge) last week had a birthday too. King George VI, a Trinity man himself, showed up for the 400th birthday party. Beneath a Holbein portrait of Henry VIII, who founded Trinity, George raised his glass in a toast: ". . . Like many of you undergraduates, I myself came here [in 1919] straight from the fighting services, and I found in the atmosphere of Cambridge ... a steady and mellowing influence." Others under the influence: Newton, Bacon, Coke, Byron, Dryden, Tennyson...