Holbein Portrait Drawings

Hans Holbein

• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Year: 2012
• Print ISBN: 9780486249377
• eBook ISBN: 9780486139333
• Topic: Art
• Subtopic: Art General

Hans Holbein the Younger (1497–1543) ranks among history’s most gifted and perceptive portrait painters. His objectivity, realism, and superb draftsmanship have influenced artists and commanded the admiration of the world for over four centuries.
This handsome volume presents 44 of Holbein’s finest portrait drawings, created while he worked as court painter to Henry VIII. This artist’s record of one of the world’s most brilliant and tempestuous courts, in drawings and finished portraits executed with inimitable sensitivity and impeccable draftsmanship, is unique in the annals of history and art. Here are revealing, detailed depictions of a gallery of powerful personalities: Sir Thomas More; Jane Seymour; Edward, Prince of Wales; Anne Boleyn; William Warham, Archbishop of Canterbury; Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey; Sir Thomas Wyatt; Nicholas Bourbon the Elder; and many others. Informative captions provide identification of the sitters, dates, dimensions of the drawings, and notes on the media.
Today the original drawings can be seen only in the collection of the Royal Library at Windsor. This inexpensive Dover edition makes them widely available to all art lovers. Moreover, every effort has been made to retain the quality of the originals — subtleties of tone and shading, fine detail, and telling nuances of expression. The drawings comprise a priceless archive of important personalities in Henrician England, a record of great value to historians, scholars, costume and cultural historians — anyone interested in that turbulent era and the astounding painter who helped preserve it.

Table of Contents

THE DOVER ART LIBRARY
Title Page
PUBLISHER’S NOTE
Copyright Page
DOVER BOOKS ON FINE ART

UNKNOWN LADY (also identified as Anne Boleyn). 281 × 192 mm.

? ELIZABETH, LADY AUDLEY (d. before 1564). Wife of Thomas, Lord Audley of Walden. 292 × 207 mm. Jewelry and notations at bottom in metalpoint; pen-and-ink reinforcement of outlines.

NICHOLAS BOURBON THE ELDER (1503–after 1550). Humanist poet; author of Nugae; 307 × 257 mm. Pen-and-ink reinforcement.

EDWARD, 9TH BARON CLINTON (1512–1585). Lord High Admiral to Edward VI and Elizabeth I; Earl of Lincoln. 218 × 144 mm. Pencil reinforcement on mouth; metalpoint on costume.

MARGARET, LADY BUTTS. Wife of Sir William Butts, physician to Henry VIII; lady-in-waiting to Princess Mary. 377 × 272 mm. Pen-and-brush ink reinforcement; metalpoint.

EDWARD, PRINCE OF WALES (1537–1553). Son of Henry VIII and Jane Seymour; later Edward VI.

? EDWARD VI.

MARGARET, LADY ELYOT (d. 1560). Wife of Sir Thomas Elyot. 278 × 208 mm. Ink strengthening; some body-color heightening.

SIR THOMAS ELYOT (before 1490–1546). Lawyer; friend of Sir Thomas More; ambassador to the court of Charles V. 284 × 205 mm. Some ink strengthening of outlines; eyes heightened in white.

SIR JOHN GAGE (1479–1557). Governor of Guisnes; Comptroller of Calais; Vice-Chamberlain to Henry VIII; Lord Chamberlain. 394 × 289 mm. Pen-and-brush ink reinforcement; metalpoint on gown.

JOHN FISHER, BISHOP OF ROCHESTER (1469–1535). Friend of Erasmus; Chancellor of Cambridge University; executed 1535; canonized 1935. 382 × 232 mm. Pen-and-brush ink reinforcement; some watercolor wash.

SIR JOHN GODSALVE (ca. 1510–1556). A deputy to Thomas Cromwell; Comptroller of the Royal Mint. 361 × 291 mm. Watercolor, body color, pen-and-brush application of ink.

SIMON GEORGE. 279 X 191 mm. Pen-and-brush application of ink.

SIR HENRY GUILDFORD (1478/89–1532). Comptroller of the Royal Household; Chamberlain of the Exchequer. 384 × 294 mm. Some watercolor.

? MARY, LADY HEVENINGHAM (d. ca. 1563). A lady of the court. 302 × 209 mm. Pen-and-ink reinforcement of outlines; brush and wash; white heightening.

LADY LISTER.

LADY MEAUTAS.

SIR JOHN ...

Table of contents

• THE DOVER ART LIBRARY
• Title Page
• PUBLISHER’S NOTE
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• DOVER BOOKS ON FINE ART