The premier artist in Henry VIII’s court, Hans Holbein the Younger was a hired-gun celebrant. Five centuries on, his paintings stun anew.

Holbein’s portrait drawings particularly capture our attention. The Royal Collection has 80, kept together in a “Great Booke” since the days of Henry VIII.

Holbein kept no studio and, upon his death from the plague in 1543, English art pretty much reverted to its benighted, former self. For evidence, look no further than the stiff, flat portraits of ...

Waldemar Januszczak looks at the life and work of Henry VIII's court painter, Hans Holbein, who witnessed and recorded the most notorious era in English history. Show more As Henry VIII's court ...

Young Derich Born’s cheekbones were not always sharp enough to peel apples — new research reveals the 1553 portrait by Hans Holbein the Younger underwent several revisions to give him a more ...

Born in Augsburg in 1497, Holbein spent most of his working life in London, eventually becoming the king's painter. As a result, our Royal Collection is "especially rich" in his work, ...

Stripped of the fashions of his day, sat bleakly against a plain blue wall, Johannes Froben doesn’t look like a sixteenth-century printer. In Hans Holbein’s portrait, he could be anyone, at ...

Born in Augsburg, Germany, in 1497/98, Hans Holbein the Younger—the Northern Renaissance painter, printmaker, illustrator, graphic artist and designer—first moved from Basel, Switzerland, to ...

Young Derich Born’s cheekbones were not always sharp enough to peel apples — new research reveals the 1553 portrait by Hans Holbein the Younger underwent several revisions to give him a more ...