Sex and Show Trials. Treason, Divorce and Death... Meet the REAL Wolf Hall with Hans Holbein's devastating Tudor portraits of Henry VIII, his cunning courtiers and doomed wives ...

Art History Holbein’s Portrait of Henry VIII Is the Jewel in the Crown of Tudor England—Here Are 3 Things You Might Not Know About It. The celebrated painting is on view in "The Tudors: Art ...

Holbein first came to England in 1526 and went on to be appointed the King's Painter at an annual salary of £30 during the most turbulent period of Henry's reign.

Holbein painted defining portraits of Henry, his six wives and other figures such as Sir Thomas More. It is thought the king obtained the portraits after the artist's death from the plague in 1543 ...

Hans Holbein the Younger acted as a matchmaker to Henry VIII, tasked with painting the portraits of potential wives across Europe in a bid to safeguard the future of the throne.

THE phenomenal growth of the world's museums means that any footloose traveler can now see ten times the masterpieces his great-grandfather had access to, even if that great-grandfather happened ...

In Hans Holbein’s portrait, he could be anyone, at any time. ... And then the big job: Henry VIII made Holbein court painter, the ultimate position an artist could hope for.

The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art said Hans Holbein’s Portrait of Henry VIII (1540) is currently on display. The portrait is on special loan from Rome.

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 ...

Holbein painted defining portraits of Henry, his six wives and other figures such as Sir Thomas More. It is thought the king obtained the portraits after the artist's death from the plague in 1543.