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Title: Hans Holbein the younger
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Chamberlain, Arthur Bensley
Subjects: Holbein, Hans, 1497-1543
Publisher: New York : Dodd, Mead and Company
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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rucifix, the masteryof Holbeins brush is everywhere in evidence. They are drawn withthe utmost delicacy and truth, and while adding to the sumptuous-ness of the picture in no way detract the attention from the nobilityand dignity of the portrait itself. The Lambeth version is said to have been presented to Warhamby Sir Thomas More or by Holbein himself, though there is no reasonto suppose that it was not paid for in the usual way by the sitter. It was lost during the civil wars, but was recovered again, as wassupposed, by Sir William Dugdale, who restored it to Lambeth in thetime of Archbishop Sancroft. 2 Walpole states that ArchbishopParker entailed this, and another of Erasmus, on his successors;they were stolen in the civil war, but Juxon repurchased the 1 Woltmann, 225. Reproduced by Davies, p. 126 ; Knackfuss, fig. 97 ; Ganz, Holbein, p. 71. 2 Wornum, p. 218, quoting from Lysons and Brayley. :OH8Ifl /.L! Vol. I., Plate 83 WILLIAM WARHAM, ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY i527Louvre, Paris
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PORTRAITS OF WARHAM AND FISHER 323 former.l The Erasmus, which did not return to its original resting-place, was, no doubt, the one by Holbein sent over by the sitter as apresent to Warham. The same writer says that the Warham wasat one time in De Loos collection, and was afterwards in the possessionof Sir Walter Cope, who had several works by Holbein, which passedby marriage to the Earl of Holland. The history of the Louvreportrait is not known, but it belonged at one time to the Newtonfamily, and later on to Louis XIV. It is possible that it was paintedfor Erasmus, and that it is the version which belonged to the Earl ofArundel, which is entered in the 1655 inventory as WarramusVescovo de Canterbury. The Louvre picture, which is the larger ofthe two, is considered by some critics to be the original painting, theLambeth version being a replica from Holbeins brush ; others holdthat the latter is the original and the better work of the two, butthe point is not easy of solution unless t

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