Word: tudors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
Back in Switzerland in 1528 he swanked it about Basle in furs and velvets, bought a fine house for his wife and family, then returned to England in 1530. As far as is 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...
...Academy Coleman, William C. Jr. 18 177 6. Kent Cohen, Joel, L. 16 220 6.2 Boston English Daniels, Edwin S. 19 185 5.9 Hamilton High Davol, Charles D. Jr. 18 185 6.3 Gunnery Downing, George A. 20 205 6.1 Exeter Gale, Arnold S. 17 215 6.5 Brookline High Gardiner, Tudor 18 185 6. Groton Hallett, Moses. D. 18 181 6.1 Milton Academy Hallowell Phillips 18 180 6.1 Milton Academy Luther, Charles H. 18 165 5.11 Blake Healey, Thomas V. 19 195 6.2 Worcester Academy Hollmeyer, Harry W. 17 175 6.2 Beacon Jacobs, Stephen W. 17 185 6. Woodmere Academy Myers...
...Aldrich, Robert L. Bacon; 1908--Rudolph Altrecchi, Samuel E. Morison; 1909--Elliott C. Cutler, William G. Wendell; 1910--Roger Amery, Clarence C. Little; 1911--Herbert Jacques, Charles E. Denlap; 1912--Hugh J. Gaddis, Robert T. Fisher; 1913--Samuel M. Folton, George C. Cutler; 1914--Junius S. Morgan, William Tudor Gardiner; 1915--T. Jefferson Coolidge, 3d, Walter H. Trumbull, Jr.; 1916--William J. Bengliam, Charles C. Lund; 1917--James C. White, Henry B. Cabot, Jr.; 1918--John K. Olyphant, Jr., Franklin E. Parker, Jr.; 1919--Cass Canfield, Winslow B. Felton
Theodore Roosevelt '09; Clarence C. Little '10, former president of the University of Michigan; Brigadier-General Newall C. Bolton '12 of Ohio; Congressman Richard B. Wigglesworth '12, of Massachusetts; Julius S. Morgan '14; W. Tudor Gardiner '14, former Governor of Maine; T. Jefferson Coolidge, 3rd '14, former Undersecretary of the Treasury; James P. Warburg...