Hans Holbein the Younger had a personal history with religious art. His father, Hans Holbein the Elder, was a 15th-century German artist from Augsburg, Bavaria.

Hans Holbein the Younger, “The Emperor” (c. 1526/38) (image via Wikimedia Commons) Hans Holbein the Younger, “The Bishop” (c. 1526/38) (image via Wikimedia Commons) Hans Holbein the Younge ...

A striking painting stolen over 40 years ago is to go on display in Scotland for the first time as part of a new exhibition.

In this exclusive extract from a new book about Henry VIII’s six wives, the art historian Suzannah Lipscomb writes about “perhaps the greatest artistic patron of them all” ...

The exhibition will include the largest number of works by Hans Holbein the Younger to be shown together in the UK for more than 15 years. The artist was Henry VIII's painter and the most ...

is a survey of the work of Hans Holbein the Younger (1497/98–1543). Holbein was Henry VIII’s court painter, the best portraitist working in Tudor England, and a crony of Erasmus of Rotterdam ...

118.7 x 77.1 cm. (46.7 x 30.4 in.) ...

The Frick Collection: Photograph Michael Bodycomb Cromwell's prayer book featured in a portrait by Hans Holbein the Younger Assistant curator at Kent's Hever Castle, Kate McCaffrey, made the link ...

Image: Thomas Cromwell as the Earl of Essex, painted by Hans Holbein the Younger (Getty Images) Diarmaid MacCulloch visits the brewery that Cromwell's father used to run. Diarmaid MacCulloch ...