Portrait of Sir Richard Southwell
Hans Holbein the Younger Β· 1536
Why it's great
A man with a fur coat looks at you with a stern, tired face. Hans Holbein the Younger painted Sir Richard Southwell in 1536, and he was an English official at the court of Henry VIII.
Where to see it
π Uffizi GalleryFlorence, Italy
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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.
