Hans Holbein the Younger, Self-portrait (ca. 1540–43). Collection of the Uffizi Gallery, Florence. Known within the English court chiefly as a portraitist, he painted more than 100 miniatures ...

Hans Holbein the Younger, Portrait of Thomas Cromwell, 1532–33 The Frick Collection, New York / Photo by Joe Coscia Jr. Another work included in the show, on loan from the Frick Collection in ...

Hans Holbein the Younger acted as a matchmaker to Henry VIII, tasked with painting the portraits of potential wives across Europe in a bid to safeguard the future of the throne.

Portraits of Londoners in the days of Henry VIII remain the most famous achievements of Hans Holbein (1497 or 1498—1543), and they sit at the center of “Holbein: Capturing Character ...

The unprecedented exhibition of Renaissance portraits by Hans Holbein the Younger at the J. Paul Getty Museum opens with a bang. His staggeringly beautiful painting of a young woman, wife of a ...

Hans Holbein the Younger was born in Augsburg, Bavaria, probably in 1497. His father, Hans the Elder, was a painter of Catholic religious art in the Late Gothic style.

A portrait, by definition, is personal, and Hans Holbein the Younger (1497/98-1543) is celebrated as a master of them. So a wander through “Holbein: Capturing Character in the Renaissance,” at ...

LOS ANGELES — Hans Holbein the Younger is well known for his portraits of Henry VIII and some of his wives and potential wives, such as Christina of Denmark, whose haunting likeness hangs near ...

Art History Conservation Work on a 16th-Century Portrait Reveals Hans Holbein’s Cheek-Chiseling Procedure. The portrait featuring a sculpted jawline is on show in Buckingham Palace.