The following are portrait sketches believed to be by Hans Holbein the Younger that are in the Royal Collection. Holbein is one of the most well known artist of his time, especially in Tudor England. His portraits are some of the best of the best. The details are amazing and truly admirable.

Holbein was born in Augsburg in southern Germany in the winter of 1497-8. He was taught by his father, Hans Holbein the Elder. He became a member of the Basel artists’ guild in 1519. He travelled a great deal, and is recorded in Lucerne, northern Italy and France. In these years he produced woodcuts and fresco designs as well as panel paintings. With the spread of the Reformation in Northern Europe the demand for religious images declined and artists sought alternative work. Holbein first travelled to England in 1526 with a recommendation to Thomas More from the scholar Erasmus. In 1532 he settled in England, dying of the plague in London in 1543.

Holbein was a highly versatile and technically accomplished artist who worked in different media. He also designed jewellery and metalwork. – The National Gallery







Simon George of Cornwall

William Reskimer

Elizabeth married�Thomas Audley, 1st Baron Audley of Walden sometime between 1538 and 1540 � she was his second wife. About 1540 Elizabeth gave birth to their first child, a daughter, Margaret Audley.







Sir Thomas & Margaret Elyot







Sir Phillip & Elizabeth Hoby

James Butler, Earl of Ormand & Nicholas Bourban, Poet

Margaret, Lady Butts

Sir Gavin & Sir George Carew

Edward Clinton, 1st Earl of Lincoln & Lady Lister

Sir Henry Guildford







John Poyntz & Nicholas Poyntz

Elizabeth, Lady Rich

Sir Thomas & Lady Elizabeth Vaux

Mary Brandon, Baroness Monteagle & Lady Meutas

Lady Ratcliffe & Catherine Willoughby, Duchess of Suffolk

Sir Thomas Strange

Sir Charles Wingfield & Lord Thomas Wentworth

Sir Thomas Wyatt & Bishop John Fisher

Mary Shelton, Lady Heveningham & Anne Boleyn

Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey & Frances de Vere, Countess of Surrey

Mary Howard, Duchess of Richmond & Princess Mary Tudor

The Unknowns

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