Portrait of Henry VIII
Hans Holbein the Younger · 1537
Why it's great
Henry VIII, in a puffed gold and jeweled jacket, stands with his hands on his hips in this Holbein portrait of 1537. Henry broke with the pope in the 1530s to marry Anne Boleyn and made himself head of the Church of England.
🏛️ Part of history
The Protestant Reformation (1517–1648) — Henry VIII, in a puffed gold and jeweled jacket, stands with his hands on his hips in this Holbein portrait of 1537.
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Hans Holbein the Younger was a German painter born in Augsburg in about 1497. He worked in Basel and then in London, where he became court painter to King Henry VIII and painted portraits that made the Tudors famous. He died in London in 1543, probably of the plague.
