File:Sir John Godsalve by Hans Holbein the Younger.jpg

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Sir John Godsalve c. 1532-34, Hans Holbein the Younger

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Hans Holbein the Younger: Sir John Godsalve  wikidata:Q20809159 reasonator:Q20809159
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 London
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)
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artist QS:P170,Q48319
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Title
Sir John Godsalve
label QS:Len,"Sir John Godsalve"
label QS:Lfr,"John Godsalve"
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Genre portrait Edit this at Wikidata
Description
English: Portrait of Sir John Godsalve. Black and coloured chalks, watercolour and bodycolour, brush, pen and ink on pink-primed paper, 36.7 × 29.6 cm, Royal Collection, Windsor Castle.

Holbein had painted John Godsalve with his father, Thomas, in 1528, during his first vsiit to England. When he returned in 1532, the younger Godsalve—a rising man in the bureaucracy of Thomas Cromwell—was among the first of those he painted. Godsalve had become Clerk of the King's Signet in 1531, and was appointed to the Office of Common Meter of Precious Tissues the following year. He went on to become Comptroller of the Royal Mint. The unusually dense working of this drawing gives it a more finished appearance than most of Holbein's studies, but it was nonethless probably done in preparation for an oil painting that has not survived. Signs of a later hand have been detected in the finish. Godsalve's glance towards the viewer is typical of Holbein's experiments with eye direction in his portraits of the early 1530s. References

  • Susan Foister, Holbein in England, London: Tate, 2006, ISBN 1854376454, p. 50.
  • John Rowlands, Holbein: The Paintings of Hans Holbein the Younger, Boston: David R. Godine, 1985, ISBN 0879235780, pp. 119–20.
Depicted people John Godsalve Edit this at Wikidata
Date circa 1532–1534
Medium oil on panel Edit this at Wikidata
Dimensions height: 36.2 cm (14.2 in) Edit this at Wikidata; width: 29.2 cm (11.4 in) Edit this at Wikidata
dimensions QS:P2048,+36.2U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,+29.2U174728
institution QS:P195,Q1459037
Accession number
RCIN 912265 (Royal Collection) Edit this at Wikidata
Source/Photographer Royal Collection
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