Whisperings in corridors, prisoners in towers, courtiers and clergy sent to the block – Hans Holbein the Younger (1497-1543), court artist during Henry VIII's reign, must have seen it all.

Holbein's art from Henry VIII's court opens at the Queen's Gallery today; The artist documented the most turbulent period of Henry's reign; For all the latest Royal news, ...

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 the Younger's Henry VIII: 'Marvellously excessive in eating and drinking' - Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images On January 24, 1536, the 44-year-old Henry VIII was injured in a ...

He has been called ‘the widest king in Christendom’ – and the fact that this vision of Henry VIII lives on in history is largely due to one German painter: Hans Holbein the Younger.

Contemporary sources, Ms. Moyle admits, are “sparse, to say the least.” Holbein was present at the court of Henry VIII and the creation of modern England.

“Holbein: Capturing Character in the Renaissance,” on view at the Getty Center, ... The Getty surveys the meticulous and chilling vision of Henry VIII’s court painter.

When we visualise the court of Henry VIII, it is probably a picture by Hans Holbein that springs to mind, said Melanie McDonagh in the Evening Standard.His "unforgettable" portraits of figures ...

An acclaimed portraitist, he served, by 1536, as court painter to King Henry VIII. Soon after Holbein’s death, in 1543, Henry most likely acquired the majority of Holbein’s drawings made in ...

More than 100 works of art from King Henry VIII's court will go on show at the Queen's Gallery at Buckingham Palace later this year. The exhibition will include the largest number of works by Hans ...

Portraits by the painter Hans Holbein of Henry VIII, his third wife, Jane Seymour, and their infant son Edward are to be displayed together for the first time since the 16th-century monarch gazed ...

Based on the dates of Holbein’s presence at court, she dates the sketch to around 1532, when Henry’s long push to end his marriage to Catherine, who had failed to deliver a male heir, was near ...