Henry_VIII_and_the_Barber_Surgeons,_by_Hans_Holbein_the_Younger,_Richard_Greenbury,_and_others.jpg
Summary
Hans Holbein the Younger : Henry VIII and the Barber Surgeons | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Artist |
artist QS:P170,Q48319
with additions and rewordings by other hands.
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Title |
Henry VIII and the Barber Surgeons
label QS:Lde,"Heinrich VIII und die Friseure - Chirurgen"
label QS:Len,"Henry VIII and the Barber Surgeons"
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Object type | painting | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Genre | history painting | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Description |
English:
This large-scale work was commissioned to commemorate the grant of a royal charter to the Company of Barbers and the Guild of Surgeons on their merger in 1540. Presumably at the request of his clients, Holbein based the design on that of the miniatures painted on Tudor charters of privileges. Henry did not sit for this last of Holbein's portraits of him. Working from an existing sketch, Holbein painted him not so much as a living person but as an icon.
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The members of the company, however, were painted as individuals.
On the King’s right side are his two physicians,
Dr. John Chambers
and Sir
William Butts
and his apothecary Thomas Alsop.
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Depicted people | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Date | Begun c 1543; additions and rewordings mid-16th century and 17th century | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medium | oil on oak panel | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dimensions |
height: 108.3 cm (42.6 in)
; width: 312.4 cm (10.2 ft)
dimensions QS:P2048,+108.3U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,+312.4U174728
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Collection | Worshipful Company of Barbers | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Notes | by 1601 repainted and 1634 restored by Richard Greenbury; after the Freat Fire of London 1666 restored in the 18th-century | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
References |
The Worshipful Company of Barbers
Pascal Griener,Oskar Bätschmann: Hans Holbein: Revised and Expanded Second Edition , p.31 B. Cohen: King Henry 8th and the barber surgeons. The story of the Holbein cartoon. |
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Source/Photographer | Stephanie Buck, Hans Holbein , Cologne: Könemann, 1999, ISBN 3829025831 . | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Annotations
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