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Hans Holbein the Younger (1497/98 - between 7 October and 29 November 1543)

• Was a German painter.
• He is called "the Younger" to distinguish him from his father Hans Holbein the Elder.
• He was King's Painter to Henry VIII of England.
• During his last decade, Holbein painted a number of miniatures; small portraits worn as a kind of jewel.
• The Flemish artists Anthony van Dyck and Peter Paul Rubens discovered Holbein through Thomas Howard, 14th Earl of Arundel.
• Arundel commissioned engravings of his Holbeins from the Czech Wenceslaus Hollar, some of works now lost.
• The displayed painting is a crop from: Hans Holbein the Younger, The merchant Georg Gisze (1497-1562), 1532.
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