2-702-381 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Hans Holbein der Jüngere', (1933). Portrait of German artist Hans Holbein the Younger (1497-1543), court painter to King Henry VIII of England. After a miniature made mid-late 16th century, previously thought to have been a self portrait by Holbein, but now believed to be by an unknown artist, in the Wallace Collection, London. From "Gestalten Der Weltgeschichte", a book of cigarette-card portrait miniatures of figures in world history from the last four hundred years. [Germany, 1933]