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Hans Holbein the Younger: Portrait of a Lady, perhaps Katherine Howard  wikidata:Q113531203 reasonator:Q113531203
Artist
Hans Holbein the Younger  (1497/1498–1543)  wikidata:Q48319 s:it:Autore:Hans Holbein il Giovane q:it:Hans Holbein il Giovane
 
Hans Holbein the Younger
Alternative names
Hans Holbein der Jüngere, Hans Holbein
Description -German painter and drawer
Date of birth/death 1497 or 1498
date QS:P,+1497-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1497-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1498-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
between 7 October 1543 and 29 November 1543
date QS:P,+1543-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1319,+1543-10-07T00:00:00Z/11,P1326,+1543-11-29T00:00:00Z/11
Location of birth/death Augsburg Edit this at Wikidata London Edit this at Wikidata
Work location
Basel (1515-1526), Lucerne (1515-1526), Venice (1515), Bologna (1515), Florence (1515), Rome (1515), Venice (1517-1518), Bologna (1517-1518), Florence (1517-1518), Rome (1517-1518), London (1526-1528), Basel (1528-1532), London (1532-1543)
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q48319
image of artwork listed in title parameter on this page
Title
Portrait of a Lady
label QS:Lit,"Ritratto di Gentildonna"
label QS:Lhu,"Hölgy portréja"
label QS:Lpl,"Portret damy"
label QS:Lsl,"Portret dame"
label QS:Lnl,"Portret van een dame"
label QS:Lru,"Портрет дамы"
label QS:Les,"Retrato de una dama"
label QS:Lde,"Bildnis einer Dame"
label QS:Lpt,"Retrato de uma senhora"
label QS:Lbe,"Партрэт дамы"
label QS:Lfr,"Portrait d'une dame"
label QS:Lmk,"Портрет на дама"
label QS:Len,"Portrait of a Lady"
, perhaps Katherine Howard? (1518/24-1542)
Object type painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
Genre miniature Edit this at Wikidata
Description
English: Portrait miniature of a lady, perhaps Katherine Howard, by Hans Holbein the Younger.
Depicted people Catherine Howard
Date circa 1540
date QS:P571,+1540-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Medium watercolor paint on vellum Edit this at Wikidata
Dimensions diameter: 6.3 cm (2.4 in)
dimensions QS:P2386,6.3U174728
institution QS:P195,Q1459037
Accession number
Notes
English: This portrait, one of two extant versions of this subject in miniature by Holbein, the other in the Buccleuch Collection, (ref. Strawberry Hill ID: sh-000454), belonged to Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel, in whose collection it was engraved by Wenceslaus Hollar as an unknown subject. It was probably acquired by Charles II first mentioned in the Inventory of goods recovered at the Restoration by Colonel William Hawley, 1660-61, where it may be identifiable as: A small piece Inclineing of a woman after ye Dresse of Henry ye Eights wife by Peter Oliver. By c.1735-40, the Buccleuch version, by then in the collection of Jonathan Richardson, had been engraved by Jacobus Houbraken for Thomas Birch’s Heads of Illustrious Persons of Great Britain (1743) as Katherine Howard, Henry VIII’s fifth queen (1518/24-42). When the miniature was first recorded in the Royal Collection c.1837, it, too, bore this identification. Foister records a reference to a third miniature listed as of Katherine Howard by Holbein, sold from the collection of the artist Pieter Stevens of Antwerp in 1668 and unassociated with either of the surviving two miniatures.

There is no undisputed contemporary likeness of Katherine Howard. The most compelling argument in favour of the lady's regal status is that the large ruby, emerald and pearl jewel that she wears is similar to that shown in Holbein's portrait of Jane Seymour at the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, (ref. 881) and identical to that shown in the portrait of Henry VIII’s third queen, at the Mauritshuis, The Hague, (ref. 278). This pendant jewel and her carcanet (necklace) of pearls and rubies set in goldsmith’s work, may have been given to Katherine Howard by Henry VIII on their marriage in 1540. The double-looped necklace closely resembles those seen in portraits of Henry VIII’s other wives, including Jane Seymour (Kunsthistorisches Museum) and is identical to that of Catherine Parr in the Hastings portrait, National Trust (ref. NT 1276906).

Katherine Howard, daughter of Lord Edmund Howard and niece of Thomas Howard, third Duke of Norfolk, became the fifth wife of Henry VIII on 28 July 1540. She was beheaded for adultery on 13 February 1542. If she is the subject of the miniature, it must date from the short period of her ascendancy and reign as queen c.1540.
References
  • Edwards, John Stephan. (2015) A Queen of New Invention: Portraits of Lady Jane Grey Dudley, England’s ‘Nine Days Queen’. Palm Springs: Old John Publishing. ISBN 9780986387302, p. 32.: "The necklace, though with a different pendant, can be seen in both the full-sized portrait of Jane Seymour, Henry's third consort, and in the miniature thought to depict Henry's fifth wife, Katherine Howard".
  • Heard, Kate & Whitaker, Lucy (2013). The Northern Renaissance: Dürer to Holbein. London: Royal Collection Publications. ISBN 9781905686827, p. 183.
  • Reynolds, Graham. (1999). The Sixteenth and Seventeenth–Century Miniatures in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen. London: The Royal Collection. ISBN 1902163451, pp. 50–52.: Rejects the suggestion that the sitter is either Lady Monteagle or Margaret Douglas, noting that "comparison in each case does not support the hypothesis."
  • Strong, Roy (1983). Artists of the Tudor Court: The Portrait Miniature Rediscovered, 1520–1620. Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Victoria & Albert Museum, 9 July–6 November 1983. London: Victoria & Albert Museum. ISBN 0905209346, p. 50: "Research on Tudor miniatures before c. 1570 indicates a sitter of exceptional importance, as duplicates in the case of women exist only as Henry VIII's queens."
  • Described at: Royal Collection Trust: RCIN 422293
Source/Photographer 1. kimiko1.com
2. File:CatherineHoward.jpg
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