Hans Holbein the Younger: Court Portraitist

Hans Holbein

A German-born painter and printmaker who worked primarily in Switzerland and England. As one of the prominent portraitists of the Northern Renaissance, he created portraits of Erasmus, Thomas More, Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, Thomas Cromwell, and others. In Basel, he produced religious paintings, prints, and book illustrations; when the Reformation altered the demand for religious art, he moved his field of activity to England. Around 1535, he became the court painter to Henry VIII, designing royal and courtier portraits as well as ornaments and festival decorations.

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Year	Hans Holbein
1490	Artistic Education from his Father Hans Holbein (Age: 7 years before birth, Period: 1490s–early 1510s, Location: Augsburg, etc.)
1497	Birth of Hans Holbein (Period: Late 1497 to early 1498 (exact date unknown), Location: Augsburg (now Bavaria, Germany))
1499	Swabian War (Age: 2 years old, Period: 1499, Location: Swabia, Upper Rhine, Northern Switzerland)
1515	Relocation to Basel (Hans Holbein, Age: 18 years old, Period: Around 1515, Location: Basel (present-day Switzerland))
1517	Execution of Murals in Lucerne (Age: 20 years old, Period: Around 1517, Location: Lucerne (present-day Switzerland))
1519	Joining the Basel Painters' Guild and Acquisition of Citizenship (Hans Holbein, Age: 22 years old, Period: 1519, Location: Basel) Marriage (Hans Holbein, Elsbeth Binzenstock-Schmid, Age: 22 years old, Period: Around 1519, Location: Basel)
1520	Changes in the Creative Environment Due to the Basel Reformation (Age: 23 years old, Period: Early 1520s, Location: Basel) Execution of Murals for Basel Town Hall and Other Buildings (Age: 23 years old, Period: Early 1520s, Location: Basel) Production of the "Dance of Death" Woodcuts (Age: 23 years old, Period: 1520s, Location: Basel)
1521	Italian Wars (Age: 24 years old, Period: 1551–1559, Location: Italy, France, Netherlands, etc.)
1523	Production of the Portrait of Erasmus (Age: 26 years old, Period: Around 1523, Location: Basel)
1526	Meeting with Thomas More (Age: 29 years old, Period: 1526, Location: London (present-day United Kingdom)) First Stay in England (Hans Holbein, Age: 29 years old, Period: 1526–1528, Location: London)
1527	Production of Works Related to "Thomas More and His Family" (Age: 30 years old, Period: Around 1527, Location: London)
1528	Return to Basel (Age: 31 years old, Period: Around 1528–1532, Location: Basel)
1530	Production of the Portrait of Henry VIII (Age: 33 years old, Period: 1530s, Location: London)
1532	Activities at the Court of Anne Boleyn (Age: 35 years old, Period: Around 1532–1536, Location: London, Court of England)
1533	Production of "The Ambassadors" (Age: 36 years old, Period: 1533, Location: London)
1535	Appointment as Court Painter to Henry VIII (Hans Holbein, Age: 38 years old, Period: Around 1535–1536, Location: London)
1536	Italian War of 1536–1538 (Age: 39 years old, Period: 1536–1538, Location: Italy, France, Savoy, etc.)
1538	Production of the Portrait of Christina of Denmark (Age: 41 years old, Period: 1538, Location: Brussels (present-day Belgium))
1539	Production of the Portrait of Anne of Cleves (Age: 42 years old, Period: 1539, Location: Düren (present-day Germany), etc.) Production of "Portrait of Anne of Cleves" (Age: 42 years old, Period: 1539, Location: Düren)
1542	Works Related to Henry VIII for the Company of Barber-Surgeons (Age: 45 years old, Period: 1542–1543, Location: London)
1543	Death of Hans Holbein (Age: 46 years old, Period: Between October 7 and November 29, 1543)

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Holy Roman Emperor	Maximilian von Habsburg Karl von Habsburg Ferdinand von Habsburg Rudolf von Habsburg Maria von Habsburg Maria von Spanien
German Reformation	Martin Luther Philip Melanchthon Andreas Karlstadt Thomas Müntzer Martin Bucer Johannes Oecolampadius Georg Spalatin
German Renaissance Art	Albrecht Dürer Hans Holbein Lucas Maler Lucas Sunder Albrecht Altdorfer Matthias Grünewald
Polish Science	Nicolaus Copernicus Marcin Bylica Jan Łaski Jan Kanty Broziński

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