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Identifier: hansholbeinyoung01cham (find matches)
Title: Hans Holbein the younger
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Chamberlain, Arthur Bensley
Subjects: Holbein, Hans, 1497-1543
Publisher: New York : Dodd, Mead and Company
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University
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THE NOSTELL PRIORY PICTURE 295 is complete and striking, and every touch stamps it as the work of onewho was a master before he had reached his thirtieth year. There are various copies of this great family picture in England,mostly of late origin and showing numerous differences. The onlyone which has any real claim to be considered the original work is thelarge canvas belonging to Lord St. Oswald at Nostell Priory, nearWakefield, which has been for many years in the possession of theWinn family (PI. 75).x Most writers have identified it with the picturementioned by Carel van Mander, whose book was first published in 1604,as seen by him in London in the possession of Andries de Loo, who hadcollected a number of Holbeins works. This lover of art, he says, had a large canvas, painted in water-colours, on which was de-picted, as large as life, from head to foot, the learned and famousThomas Morus, with his wife, sons, and daughters, all magnificentlyarrayed, a piece worthy to be seen and
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