This list of paintings by Hans Holbein the Younger contains a selection of the artist's best-known paintings, as well as a few copies and derivatives of his art, some of which relate to lost works. [1]
Hans Holbein the Younger (c. 1497–1543) was a German artist and printmaker who worked in a Northern Renaissance style. He is best known as one of the greatest portraitists of the 16th century. [2] He also made a significant contribution to the history of book design, and produced religious art, satire, and Reformation propaganda.
Born in Augsburg, Holbein worked mainly in Basel as a young artist, painting murals and religious works and drawing designs for stained glass and printed books. He produced the occasional portrait, and made his international mark with portraits of the famous humanist Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam. When the Reformation reached Basel, Holbein produced works for reformist clients while continuing to serve traditional religious patrons. His late-Gothic style was influenced by artistic trends in Italy, France and the Netherlands, as well as by Renaissance humanism, resulting in a combined aesthetic that was uniquely his own.
Holbein travelled to England in 1526 in search of work, armed with a recommendation from Erasmus. He was welcomed into the humanist circle of Thomas More, where he soon built a high reputation. After returning to Basel for four years, in 1532 he resumed his career in England, where he worked for Anne Boleyn and Thomas Cromwell, and was appointed King's Painter to Henry VIII. In this role, he produced designs for jewellery, plates, and other precious objects, as well as for festive decorations. His portraits of the king and his family and courtiers provide a vivid record of a brilliant court, during a momentous period when Henry was assuming power as the Supreme Head of the English church.
Work | Description | Date | Medium | Size | Location |
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Head of a Female Saint, attributed to Holbein [3] | c. 1515–16 | Oil and tempera on spruce wood | 23.5 × 21.5 cm | Kunstmuseum Basel | |
Head of a Male Saint, attributed to Holbein [3] | c. 1515–16 | Oil and tempera on spruce wood | 23.5 × 21.5 cm | Kunstmuseum Basel | |
Portrait of Jakob Meyer zum Hasen [4] | 1516 | Oil and tempera on limewood | 38.5 × 31 cm | Kunstmuseum Basel | |
Portrait of Dorothea Meyer , wife of Jakob Meyer zum Hasen [5] | 1516 | Oil and tempera on limewood | 38.5 × 31 cm | Kunstmuseum Basel | |
Signboard for the Schoolmaster Oswald Myconius (with Ambrosius Holbein) [6] | 1516 | Oil and tempera on pine panel | 55.5 × 65.5 cm | Kunstmuseum Basel | |
Adam and Eve [7] | 1517 | Oil and tempera on paper mounted on pine | 30.2 × 35.7 cm | Kunstmuseum Basel | |
Portrait of Benedikt von Hertenstein [8] | 1517 | Oil and tempera on paper mounted on wood | 52.4 × 38.1 cm | Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York | |
Portrait of Bonifacius Amerbach [9] | 1519 | Oil and tempera on pine | 28.5 × 27.4 cm | Kunstmuseum Basel | |
Oberried Altarpiece, The Adoration of the Magi, left panel [10] | c 1520 | Oil and tempera on pine | 230 × 109 cm | University Chapel of the Cathedral, Freiburg im Breisgau | |
Oberried Altarpiece, The Birth of Christ, right panel [10] | c 1520 | Oil and tempera on pine | 230 × 109 cm | University Chapel of the Cathedral, Freiburg im Breisgau | |
The Body of the Dead Christ in the Tomb [11] | 1521–22 | Oil and tempera on limewood | 30.6 × 200 cm | Kunstmuseum Basel | |
The Solothurn Madonna [12] | 1522 | Oil and tempera on limewood | 140.5 × 102 cm | Kunstmuseum Solothurn | |
Portrait of Johannes Froben [13] | c 1522–23 | Oil on panel | 48.8 × 32.4 cm | Royal Collection | |
Portrait of Erasmus of Rotterdam writing [14] | 1523 | Oil and tempera on paper mounted on pine | 36.8 × 30.5 cm | Kunstmuseum Basel | |
Portrait of Erasmus of Rotterdam writing [15] | 1523 | Oil and tempera on wood | 43 × 33 cm | Louvre, Paris | |
Portrait of Erasmus of Rotterdam [16] | 1523 | Oil and tempera on wood | 76 × 51 cm | National Gallery, London, on loan from Longford Castle | |
Printer's Device of Johannes Froben [17] | c 1523 | Tempera on canvas, heightened with gold | 44 × 31 cm | Kunstmuseum Basel | |
Allegory of the Old and New Law [18] | Unknown date between 1524 and 1535 | Oil and tempera on oak | 49 × 60 cm | National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh | |
The Passion altarpiece, the two left panels [19] | c. 1524–25 | Oil and tempera on limewood | 136 × 31 cm and 149.5 × 31 cm | Kunstmuseum Basel | |
The Passion altarpiece, the two right panels [19] | 1524–25 | Oil and tempera on limewood | 149.5 × 31 cm and 136 × 31 cm | Kunstmuseum Basel | |
The Last Supper [20] | c 1524–25 | Oil and tempera on limewood | 115.5 × 97.3 cm | Kunstmuseum Basel | |
Lais of Corinth [21] | 1526 | Oil and tempera on limewood | 34.6 × 26.8 cm | Kunstmuseum Basel | |
Portrait of a Man with a Lute [22] | c. 1526–27 | Oil and tempera on oak | 43.5 × 43.5 cm | Berlin State Museums | |
The Darmstadt Madonna (the Madonna of Jakob Meyer zum Hasen) [23] | 1526 and 1528–30 | Oil and tempera on limewood | 146.5 × 102 cm | Johanniterkirche, Schwäbisch Hall | |
Noli me Tangere [24] | Unknown date, perhaps 1526 to 1528 | Oil and tempera on oak | 76.8 × 94.9 cm | Royal Collection | |
Portrait of Sir Thomas More [25] | 1527 | Oil and tempera on oak | 74.2 × 59 cm | Frick Collection, New York | |
Portrait of William Warham, Archbishop of Canterbury [26] | 1527 | Oil and tempera on oak | 82 × 67 cm | Louvre, Paris | |
Portrait of Sir Henry Guildford [27] | 1527 | Oil and tempera on oak | 82.6 × 66.4 cm | Royal Collection, Windsor Castle | |
Portrait of Mary, Lady Guildford [28] | 1527 | Oil and tempera on oak | 87 × 70.5 cm | Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, Missouri | |
Portrait of a Lady with a Squirrel and a Starling [29] | c. 1527–28 | Oil and tempera on oak | 54 × 38.7 cm | National Gallery, London | |
Portrait of Thomas Godsalve and his son John [30] | 1528 | Oil and tempera on oak | 35 × 36 cm | Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden | |
Portrait of Nikolaus Kratzer [31] | 1528 | Oil and tempera on oak | 83 × 67 cm | Louvre, Paris | |
Portrait of the Artist's Family [32] | c. 1528–29 | Oil and tempera on paper, cut out and mounted on wood | 79.4 × 64.7 cm | Kunstmuseum Basel | |
Rehoboam, fragment of wall painting [33] | 1530 | Painting on plaster | 28 × 41.5 cm | Kunstmuseum Basel | |
Miniature Portrait of Erasmus of Rotterdam [34] | c. 1532 | Oil and tempera on limewood | 10 cm diameter | Kunstmuseum Basel | |
Portrait of Hermann von Wedigh [35] | 1532 | Oil and tempera on wood | 42.2 × 32.4 cm | Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York | |
Portrait of the Merchant Georg Gisze [36] | 1532 | Oil and tempera on oak | 90.3 × 85.7 cm | Berlin State Museums | |
Portrait of Thomas Cromwell [37] | c. 1532–33 | Oil and tempera on oak | 76 × 61 cm | Frick Collection, New York | |
A Merchant of the German Steelyard: 'Hans of Antwerp' [38] | c. 1532–33 | Oil and tempera on oak | 61 × 46.8 cm | Royal Collection | |
Portrait of a Woman in a White Coif [39] | c. 1532–34 | Oil and tempera on oak | 23.4 × 18.8 cm | Detroit Institute of Arts | |
Portrait of William Reskimer [40] | c. 1532–34 | Oil and tempera on oak | 46.4 × 33.7 cm | Royal Collection, Windsor Castle | |
Miniature Portrait of Philipp Melanchthon [41] | c. 1530–1535 | Oil and tempera on oak | 9 cm diameter | Lower Saxony State Museum, Hanover | |
Miniature Portrait of a Man in a Red Cap [42] | c. 1532–35 | Oil and tempera on wood | 9.5 cm diameter | Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York | |
Miniature Portrait of George Nevill, 5th Baron Bergavenny [43] | c. 1532–35 | Duke of Buccleuch collection | |||
Portrait of Derich Born [44] | 1533 | Oil and tempera on oak | 60.3 × 45 cm | Royal Collection, Windsor Castle | |
Derich Born [45] | c. 1533 | Oil and tempera on red beech | 13.1 cm diameter | Alte Pinakothek, Munich | |
Portrait of Robert Cheseman [46] | 1533 | Oil and tempera on oak | 59 × 62.5 cm | Mauritshuis, The Hague | |
Portrait of Hermann Hillebrandt de Wedigh [47] | 1533 | Oil and tempera on oak | 42.1 × 32.6 cm | Gemäldegalerie, Berlin | |
Portrait of Dirk Tybis [48] | 1533 | Oil and tempera on oak | 48 × 35 cm | Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna | |
Portrait of Cyriacus Kale [49] | 1533 | Oil and tempera on oak | 60 × 44 cm | Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig | |
Double Portrait of Jean de Dinteville and Georges de Selve ("The Ambassadors") [50] | 1533 | Oil and tempera on oak | 207 × 209 cm | National Gallery, London | |
Portrait Miniature of a Young Man with a Pink [51] [52] | 1533 | Oil on oak | 12.4 × 12.1 cm | Upton House, Bearsted Collection | |
Portrait of Sir Brian Tuke [53] | c. 1533–35 | Oil and tempera on oak | 49.1 × 38.5 cm | National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C. | |
E Cosi Desio me Mena, Allegory of Love [54] | c. 1533–36 | Oil on oak in lozenge format | 45 × 45 cm | J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles | |
Miniature Portrait of a Court Official [55] | 1534 | Oil and tempera on limewood | 12 cm diameter | Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna | |
Miniature Portrait of a Court Official's Wife [55] | 1534 | Oil and tempera on limewood | 12 cm diameter | Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna | |
Portrait of Charles de Solier, Sieur de Morette [56] | 1534–35 | Oil and tempera on oak | 92.5 × 75.4 cm | Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden | |
Solomon and the Queen of Sheba [57] | c. 1534–35 | Pen and brush in bistre and grey wash, heightened in white, gold, and oxidised silver with red and green watercolour over black chalk on vellum | 22.9 × 18.2 cm | Royal Library, Windsor | |
Portrait of Simon George [58] | c. 1534–37 | Oil and tempera on oak | Diameter 31 cm | Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt | |
Portrait of an Unknown English Lady [59] | 1535 | Tempera on Oak | 32 × 25 cm | Oskar Reinhart Collection 'Am Römerholz', Winterthur | |
Portrait of Derich Berck [60] | 1536 | Oil and tempera transferred to canvas | 53.3 × 42.6 cm | Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York | |
Portrait Miniature of William Roper [61] | c. 1536 | Bodycolour on vellum mounted on card | 4.5 cm diameter | Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York | |
Portrait Miniature of Margaret Roper [61] | c. 1536 | Bodycolour on vellum mounted on card | 4.5 cm diameter | Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York | |
Portrait of Sir Richard Southwell [62] | 1536 | Oil and tempera on oak | 47.5 × 38 cm | Uffizi, Florence | |
Portrait of Sir Thomas Lestrange [63] | 1536 | Oil and tempera on wood | 39.4 × 26.7 cm | Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas | |
Portrait of Sir Henry Wyatt [64] | c. 1537 | Oil and tempera on oak | 39 × 31 cm | Louvre, Paris | |
Portrait of Henry VIII [65] | c. 1536–37 | Oil and tempera on oak | 28 × 20 cm | Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid | |
Portrait of Jane Seymour [66] | 1537 | Oil and tempera on oak | 65 × 40 cm | Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna | |
Mural of Henry VIII, Jane Seymour, Henry VII, and Elizabeth of York | 1536–1537 | Destroyed in Whitehall Palace fire, 1698 | |||
Portrait Miniature of Hans Schwarzwaldt [67] | c. 1535–1540 | Watercolour on vellum mounted on playing card | 3.8 cm diameter | Royal Collections, The Hague | |
Portrait of Christina of Denmark [68] | 1538 | Oil and tempera on oak | 179 × 82.5 cm | National Gallery, London | |
Hanseatic Merchant [69] | 1538 | Oil on oak panel | 49.6 x 39 cm | Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven CT | |
Portrait Miniature of Elizabeth, Lady Audley [70] | c. 1538 | Watercolour on vellum mounted on playing card | 5.6 cm diameter | Royal Collection, Windsor castle | |
Portrait of Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk [71] | c. 1539 | Oil and tempera on oak | 80.3 × 61.6 cm | Royal Collection, Windsor Castle | |
Portrait of Edward, Prince of Wales [72] | c. 1539 | Oil and tempera on oak | 57 × 44 cm | National gallery of Art, Washington, D. C. | |
Portrait of Anne of Cleves [73] | c. 1539 | Oil and tempera on parchment mounted on canvas | 65 × 48 cm | Louvre, Paris | |
Portrait Miniature of Anne of Cleves [74] | c. 1539 | Watercolour and gum on vellum in ivory case | 4.6 cm diameter | Victoria and Albert Museum, London | |
Portrait of a Lady, perhaps Katherine Howard [75] | c. 1540 | Bodycolour on vellum mounted on playing card | 6.4 cm diameter | Royal Collection, Windsor Castle | |
Portrait Miniature of Katherine Howard [76] | c. 1540 | Watercolour on vellum | 5.3 cm diameter | Buccleuch collection, Strawberry Hill House | |
Portrait of a Lady, probably a Member of the Cromwell Family [77] | c. 1535–1540 | Oil and tempera on oak | 74 × 48 cm | Toledo Museum of Art | |
Portrait Miniature of Jane Small , also called "Jane Pemberton" [78] | c. 1540 | Bodycolour on vellum | 5.3 cm diameter | Victoria and Albert Museum, London | |
Portrait of an Unknown Man, Holding his Gloves and a Letter [79] | c. 1540 | Oil and tempera on oak | 56 × 48 cm | Private collection | |
Portrait of an Unknown Man [80] | c. 1540–43 | Oil and tempera on oak | 44.4 × 34.2 cm | English Heritage, Audley End House | |
Portrait Miniature of Henry Brandon [81] | 1541 | Bodycolour on vellum mounted on playing card | 5.7 cm diameter | Royal Collection, Windsor Castle | |
Portrait Miniature of Charles Brandon [81] | 1541 | Bodycolour on vellum mounted on playing card | 5.7 cm diameter | Royal Collection, Windsor Castle | |
Roelof de Vos van Steenwijk (circa 1504 - circa 1564) [82] | 1541 | On oak | 47.5 × 37.3 cm | Berlin State Museums | |
Portrait of a Young Merchant [83] | 1541 | Oil and tempera on oak | 46.5 × 34.8 cm | Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna | |
Portrait Miniature of a Young Woman with a White Coif [84] | 1541 | Oil and tempera on panel | 11.11 cm diameter | Los Angeles County Museum of Art | |
Portrait of a Man with a Falcon [85] | 1542 | Oil and tempera on oak | 25 × 19 cm | Mauritshuis, The Hague | |
Portrait of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey [86] | c. 1542 | Oil and tempera on oak | 55.5 × 44 cm | São Paulo Museum of Art, Brazil | |
Portrait of an English Lady [87] | c. 1541–43 | Oil and tempera on oak | 19.2 × 15.3 cm | Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna | |
Self-portrait | c. 1542–1543 | Coloured chalks and pen | 32× 26 cm | Uffizi, Florence | |
Portrait of Dr John Chambers [88] | c. 1543 | Oil and tempera on oak | 51 × 44 cm | Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna | |
Portrait of Sir William Butts [89] | c. 1543 | Oil and tempera, formerly on oak panel, transferred to canvas in 1941 | 47 × 36.8 cm | Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston | |
Portrait of Lady Margaret Butts [89] | c. 1543 | Oil and tempera on oak | 46 × 37 cm | Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston | |
Portrait of Johann von Schwarzwaldt [90] [91] | 1543 | Tempera on parchment | 5.4 cm diameter | Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow | |
Portrait of Antony the Good, Duke of Lorraine [92] | c. 1543 | Oil and tempera on oak | 51 × 37 cm | Berlin State Museums | |
Henry VIII and the Barber Surgeons, reworked and overpainted by other hands [93] | c. 1543 | Oil on oak | 108.3 × 312.4 cm | Worshipful Company of Barbers, London |
Work | Description | Date | Medium | Size | Location |
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Portrait of a Woman from Southern Germany, former attribution [94] | c. 1520–1525 | Oil on panel | 45 × 34 cm | Mauritshuis, The Hague | |
Portrait of Nikolaus Kratzer, after Holbein [95] | c. 1528 | Oil on panel | 81.9 × 64.8 cm | National Portrait Gallery (London) | |
Portrait of Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam, Holbein's workshop [96] | c. 1530 | Oil and tempera on limewood | 18.2 × 14.5 cm | Kunstmuseum Basel | |
Portrait of Sir Nicholas Carew, workshop or follower of Holbein [97] | Probably 1530s | Oil and tempera on wood | 95.3 × 112 cm | Duke of Buccleuch, Drumlanrig Castle, Dumfries | |
Portrait of an Unidentified Gentleman, workshop or follower of Holbein [98] | 1535 | Oil on oak | 30.5 cm diameter | Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York | |
Portrait of Sir Nicholas Poyntz, after Holbein [99] | c.1535 | Oil on panel | 42.5 × 29.2 cm | National Portrait Gallery, London | |
Portrait Miniature of an Unidentified Man, possibly Hans of Antwerp, workshop of Holbein [100] | c. 1535–40 | Oil and tempera on oak | 13 cm diameter | Victoria and Albert Museum, London. | |
Portrait of Jane Seymour, after Holbein [101] | c. 1537 | Oil and tempera on oak | 26.3 × 18.7 cm | Mauritshuis, The Hague | |
Portrait Miniature of Thomas Cromwell, after Holbein [102] | c. 1537 | Watercolour and bodycolour on vellum | 4.4 cm diameter | National Portrait Gallery, London | |
Portrait Miniature of Thomas Cromwell, after Holbein [103] | c. 1537 | Watercolour and bodycolour on vellum | 4.4 cm diameter | National Portrait Gallery, London | |
Portrait of Prince Edward, after Holbein [104] | 16th century, after c. 1538 | Oil on panel | 59 × 44.5cm | Berger Collection, Denver Art Museum | |
Portrait of a Young Woman, Holbein's Workshop [105] | c. 1540 - 1545 | Oil and gold on oak | 28.3 x 23.2 cm | Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York | |
Lady Lee (Margaret Wyatt), Holbein's workshop [106] | c. 1540 | Oil on panel | 44.1 × 34 cm | Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York | |
Portrait of Henry VIII, Holbein's workshop [107] | c. 1540 | Oil on oak | 88.2 × 75 cm | Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, Rome | |
Portrait of Elizabeth, Lady Rich, after Holbein [108] | c. 1540 | Oil and tempera on wood (probably oak) | 44.5 × 33.9 cm | Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York | |
Portrait of Henry VIII in a Great Coat Holding a Staff, after Holbein [109] | 1542 | Oil and tempera on oak | 92.7 × 66.7 cm | Castle Howard, Yorkshire | |
Portrait Miniature of Hans Holbein the Younger, copy of Holbein's self-portrait, probably by Lucas Horenbout [110] | 1543 | Watercolour on vellum mounted on playing card | 3.7 cm diameter | Wallace Collection, London | |
Portrait of Henry VIII, after Holbein [111] | After 1537, possibly c 1567 | Oil on canvas | 233.7 × 134.6 cm | Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool | |
Portrait of Sir William Butts, after Holbein [112] | c 1543 | Oil on panel | 47 × 37.5 cm | National Portrait Gallery, London | |
Portrait of George Brooke, 9th Baron Cobham [113] | After 1544 | Oil on panel | 32 cm diameter | Private collection | |
Edward VI (1537–1553), When Duke of Cornwall. Holbein's Workshop [114] | c. 1545; reworked 1547 or later | Oil and gold on oak | 32.4 cm diameter | Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York | |
Portrait Miniature of Thomas Wriothesley, 1st Earl of Southampton, after Holbein [115] | Probably second half of 16th century | Watercolour on vellum laid on card | Oval of 5 × 3 cm | Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York | |
The Family of Thomas More, by Rowland Lockey, after Holbein's lost painting [116] | 1592 | Oil on canvas | Nostell Priory, West Yorkshire | ||
Dresden Madonna, copy by Bartholomäus Sarburgh(de) of Holbein's Darmstadt Madonna [117] | c. 1635–37 | Oil on oak | 159 × 103 cm | Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden | |
Portrait of Johann Froben, after Holbein [118] | 16th or beginning of 17th century, after an original of 1520–26 | Oil and tempera on oak | 39.5 × 33.5 cm | Kunstmuseum Basel | |
Portrait of Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam, Holbein's workshop, with later additions [119] | c. 1523–40, background c. 1629 | Oil on wood | 54.7 x 32.4 cm | Royal Collection, Windsor Castle | |
Henry VII, Elizabeth of York, Henry VIII, and Jane Seymour, copy by Remigius van Leemput of Holbein's Whitehall Mural, destroyed by fire in 1698 [120] | 1667 | Oil on canvas | 88.9 × 99.2 cm | Royal Collection, Windsor Castle |
Hans Holbein the Younger was a German-Swiss painter and printmaker who worked in a Northern Renaissance style, and is considered one of the greatest portraitists of the 16th century. He also produced religious art, satire, and Reformation propaganda, and he made a significant contribution to the history of book design. He is called "the Younger" to distinguish him from his father Hans Holbein the Elder, an accomplished painter of the Late Gothic school.
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Jane Small (c. 1518–1602) was a daughter of Christopher Pemberton, a Northamptonshire gentleman. She is well known as the subject of a portrait miniature by the famous 16th-century German artist Hans Holbein the Younger, painted about 1540. Holbein was known as a painter of the English court, where his paintings included those of King Henry VIII and several of his wives.
John Bettes the Elder was an English artist whose few known paintings date from between about 1543 and 1550. His most famous work is his Portrait of a Man in a Black Cap. His son, John Bettes the Younger, was a pupil of Nicholas Hilliard who painted portraits during the reign of Elizabeth I and James I.
The Body of the Dead Christ in the Tomb, sometimes referred to as Dead Christ, is an oil and tempera on limewood painting created by the German artist and printmaker Hans Holbein the Younger between 1520 and 1522.
Portrait of Sir Thomas More is an oak panel painting created in 1527 by the German artist and printmaker Hans Holbein the Younger, now in the Frick Collection in New York.
Portrait Miniature of Margaret Roper is a painting by the German artist and printmaker Hans Holbein the Younger created during 1535–36, and today held in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Margaret Roper (1505–44) was the eldest child of Sir Thomas More and wife of the English biographer William Roper. It is the second and less well-known of two portraits of Roper painted by Holbein. The first, Portrait of an English Woman, is generally believed to show Roper but may depict another unknown lady of the English court. The New York work was painted during the artist's second visit to London, likely in the mid-1530s.
Venus and Amor is painting by Hans Holbein the Youngers workshop and is the collection of the Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland. It was assumed for a long time to be painting by Hans Holbein the Younger, but research showed that this could not be possible. It was discovered that the painter had used a sort of carbon paper with the contours of the already existing Laïs and used it to transfer those contours in reverse on the new portrait he was to paint of Venus.
The Darmstadt Madonna is an oil painting by the German-Swiss artist Hans Holbein the Younger. Completed ca. 1526—1530 in Basel, the work shows the Bürgermeister of Basel Jakob Meyer zum Hasen, his first wife, his current wife, and his daughter grouped around the Madonna and infant Jesus.
The Self-portrait is a small drawing by the German Renaissance artist and printmaker Hans Holbein the Younger, completed around 1542–1543, and housed in the Uffizi, Florence. The gold background was added later by a different artist. According to art historian John Rowlands, "Although this drawing has been enlarged on all sides and heavily reworked, enough of it still shows to allow the assumption that the original work was executed by Holbein. The inscription, also a later addition, evidently records an even earlier one, of which slight traces remain.
Portrait of Thomas Cromwell is a small oil painting by the German and Swiss artist Hans Holbein the Younger, usually dated to between 1532 and 1534, when Cromwell, an English lawyer and statesman who served as chief minister to King Henry VIII of England from 1532 to 1540, was around 48 years old. It is one of two portraits Holbein painted of him; the other is a tondo from a series of medallions of Tudor courtiers.
Portrait of Christina of Denmark is an oil on oak panel painting by Hans Holbein the Younger completed in 1538. It was commissioned that year by Thomas Cromwell, agent for Henry VIII, as a betrothal painting following the death of the English Queen Jane Seymour. It shows the then sixteen-year-old Christina of Denmark, widowed to Duchess of Milan since she had been 13 years. Her striking manner and strength of character are apparent in the portrait. Although Henry was taken by the representation, the marriage proposal did not go ahead, not least because Christina was aware of Henry's earlier mistreatment of his wives. She is reported as saying, "If I had two heads, I would happily put one at the disposal of the King of England". Various political and practical obstacles related to her ties with the Lutheran church also thwarted the match.
Portrait of a Lady with a Squirrel and a Starling is an oil-on-oak portrait completed in around 1526–1528 by German Renaissance painter Hans Holbein the Younger. The painting shows a demurely dressed young woman sitting against a plain blue background and holding in her lap a squirrel on a chain eating a nut; a starling sits on a grape vine in the background with its beak pointing at her right ear. The grape, a Biblical motif, for Holbein was a symbol of abundance and wealth. The subject of this portrait is believed to be Anne Lovell, wife of Sir Francis Lovell (d. 1551), an Esquire of the Body to Henry VIII.
Hans Holbein the Younger painted the Portrait of Erasmus of Rotterdam several times, and his paintings were much copied, at the time and later. It is difficult to disentangle Holbein's original work from that of his workshop and other copyists. Possibly five largely original versions survive, as well as a number of drawings made as studies.
Portrait of a Lady, probably a Member of the Cromwell Family is an oil on panel portrait completed in around 1535–1540 by Hans Holbein the Younger now at the Toledo Museum of Art. The painting shows an elegantly but demurely dressed young woman sitting against a blue-grey background. The subject of this portrait is thought to be a member of the Cromwell family, perhaps Thomas Cromwell's daughter-in-law, Elizabeth Seymour, sister to Jane, third consort of Henry VIII.
Portrait of a Young Merchant is an oil on oak painting completed in 1541 by German painter, Hans Holbein the Younger, now in the collection of the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna. It depicts an unidentified young man against a blue-grey background.
Portrait of Charles de Solier, Sieur de Morette is an oil on oak painting completed in around 1534–1535 by German painter and printmaker, Hans Holbein the Younger, now at the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden. It depicts the French diplomat, Charles de Solier (1480–1552), Francis I's ambassador to England.
Portrait of Hermann Hillebrandt de Wedigh is an oil and tempera on oak painting completed in 1533 by Hans Holbein the Younger, now in the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin. It depicts a member of the Wedigh family of Cologne thought to be a merchant of the Steelyard in London.