![]() In 1517 Holbein went to Lucerne, where he and his father were commissioned to paint murals for the city mayor’s mansion as well as portraits of the mayor and his wife. He was a successful portraitist from an early stage At the time, engraving was one of the only ways to mass-produce images for wide circulation, thus a highly important medium. Holbein the Elder ran a large, busy workshop in Augsburg in Bavaria, and it was here the boys learned the art of drawing, engraving and painting. In 1515, Holbein and his brother Ambrosius moved to Basel in Switzerland, where they designed prints, murals, stained glass and engravings. One of Holbein’s brothers, Ambrosius, was also a painter, yet died in around 1519. He is commonly known as ‘The Younger’ to differentiate him from his father of the same name (Hans Holbein ‘the Elder’) who was also an accomplished painter and draughtsman, as was Holbein the Younger’s uncle Sigmund – both were renowned for their conservative Late Gothic paintings. Holbein was born in approximately 1497 into a family of important artists. He is referred to as ‘the Younger’ to distinguish him from his father ![]() Dr Nicola Tallis and Franny Moyle dissect the paintings of the Tudor Court by the renowned portraitist, Hans Holbein the Younger. ![]()
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