ndsor Castle.
Nicholas Kratzer, Astronomer Royal to King Henry VIII. [Plate 23.]
Oils. The Louvre.
Sir Henry Wyat. Oils. The Louvre.
Sir Bryan Tuke, Treasurer of the Household to King Henry VIII.
Oils. Munich Gallery. [Plate 24.]
Also at Grosvenor House. (As stated in the text, the writer holds
that the portraits of Sir Bryan Tuke should properly be classed
with those of a later period. But they are given here in accordance
with opinions which obtain at present.)
IV.
LAST BASEL PERIOD
(1528-1531)
** Portrait group of Holbein's wife, Elsbeth, and his two eldest children.
[Plate 25.] Oils, on paper.
Basel Museum. (Outline hard from having been cut out and mounted.)
King Rehoboam replying to his people, and
** Samuel denouncing Saul. [Plate 26.]
Two Washed Drawings. Basel Museum. (These are the designs for "the
back wall" of the Basel Council Chamber.)
"Portrait of an English Lady" (unknown).
Chalk Drawing. Basel Museum.
** Portrait of an unknown young man in a broad-brimmed hat.
Chalk Drawing. Basel Museum.
(This is one of the most beautiful of Holbein's portrait studies. There
is a soft, yet virile, witchery about it which haunts the memory.)
Round Portrait of Erasmus. (Bust, 3/4 view.)
Oils. Basel Museum.
Designs for dagger-sheaths and other goldsmith's work.
Washed Drawings. Basel Museum, British Museum, etc.
(More especially the "Dance of Death"; a chef-d'oeuvre.)
A ship making sail.
Washed Drawing. Staedel Institut. Frankfurt.
V.
LAST PERIOD; LONDON
(1531-43)
** Portrait of Joerg Gyze. [Plate 27.]
Oils. Berlin Gallery.
Portrait of an unknown man.
Oils. Schoenborn Gallery, Vienna.
Johann or Hans of Antwerp.
Oils. Windsor Castle. (Holbein's friend and executor.)
Derich Tybis of Duisburg.
Oils. Imperial Gallery, Vienna.
Derich Born.
Oils. Munich Gallery, and Windsor Castle.
Derich Berck.
Oils. Petworth.
Unknown Man.
Oils. Prado Gallery, Madrid.
The Triumph of Riches.
Drawing. The Louvre.
(Copies of this and the pendant design, The Triumph of Poverty,
in the British Museum and in the Collection of Lady Eastlake.)
The Queen of Sheba before Solomon.
Washed Drawing, heightened with gold and colours. Windsor Castle.
Robert Cheseman, with falcon.
Oils. Hague Gallery.
* "The Ambassadors." [Plate 28.]
Oils. Nati
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