This portrait of Emperor Charles V was painted by an artist in the circle of Jan Cornelisz. Vermeyen. Charles V (1500-1559) became the ruler of Habsburg Netherlands in 1515.
1884: bought by the Nederlandsch Museum voor Geschiedenis en Kunst, inv.no. 6015, The Hague, from an unknown dealer, Dordrecht (as school of Hans Holbein)
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Portrait of Charles V (1500-58), emperor of the Holy Roman Empire