This list of paintings by Hans Holbein the Younger contains a selection of the artist's best-known paintings, as well as a few copies and derivatives of his art, some of which relate to lost works.

Hans Holbein the Younger

Hans Holbein the Younger

Hans Holbein the Younger was a German artist and printmaker who worked in a Northern Renaissance style. He is best known as one of the greatest portraitists of the 16th century. He also produced religious art, satire and Reformation propaganda, and made a significant contribution to the history...

 (c. 1497–1543) was a German artist

German Renaissance

The German Renaissance, part of the Northern Renaissance, was a cultural and artistic movement that spread among German thinkers in the 15th and 16th centuries, which originated from the Italian Renaissance in Italy...

 and printmaker who worked in a Northern Renaissance

Northern Renaissance

The Northern Renaissance is the term used to describe the Renaissance in northern Europe, or more broadly in Europe outside Italy. Before 1450 Italian Renaissance humanism had little influence outside Italy. From the late 15th century the ideas spread around Europe...

 style. He is best known as one of the greatest portraitists of the 16th century. He also made a significant contribution to the history of book design, and produced religious art, satire, and Reformation

Protestant Reformation

The Protestant Reformation was a 16th-century split within Western Christianity initiated by Martin Luther, John Calvin and other early Protestants. The efforts of the self-described "reformers", who objected to the doctrines, rituals and ecclesiastical structure of the Roman Catholic Church, led...

 propaganda.

Born in Augsburg

Augsburg

Augsburg is a city in the south-west of Bavaria, Germany. It is a university town and home of the Regierungsbezirk Schwaben and the Bezirk Schwaben. Augsburg is an urban district and home to the institutions of the Landkreis Augsburg. It is, as of 2008, the third-largest city in Bavaria with a...

, Holbein worked mainly in Basel

Basel

Basel or Basle In the national languages of Switzerland the city is also known as Bâle , Basilea and Basilea is Switzerland's third most populous city with about 166,000 inhabitants. Located where the Swiss, French and German borders meet, Basel also has suburbs in France and Germany...

 as a young artist, painting murals and religious works and drawing designs for stained glass and printed books. He produced the occasional portrait, and made his international mark with portraits of the famous humanist Desiderius Erasmus

Desiderius Erasmus

Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus , known as Erasmus of Rotterdam, was a Dutch Renaissance humanist, Catholic priest, and a theologian....

 of Rotterdam. When the Reformation

Protestant Reformation

The Protestant Reformation was a 16th-century split within Western Christianity initiated by Martin Luther, John Calvin and other early Protestants. The efforts of the self-described "reformers", who objected to the doctrines, rituals and ecclesiastical structure of the Roman Catholic Church, led...

 reached Basel, Holbein produced works for reformist clients while continuing to serve traditional religious patrons. His late-Gothic style was influenced by artistic trends in Italy, France and the Netherlands, as well as by Renaissance Humanism

Renaissance humanism

Renaissance humanism was an activity of cultural and educational reform engaged by scholars, writers, and civic leaders who are today known as Renaissance humanists. It developed during the fourteenth and the beginning of the fifteenth centuries, and was a response to the challenge of Mediæval...

, resulting in a combined aesthetic that was uniquely his own.

Holbein travelled to England in 1526 in search of work, armed with a recommendation from Erasmus. He was welcomed into the humanist circle of Thomas More

Thomas More

Sir Thomas More , also known by Catholics as Saint Thomas More, was an English lawyer, social philosopher, author, statesman and noted Renaissance humanist. He was an important councillor to Henry VIII of England and, for three years toward the end of his life, Lord Chancellor...

, where he soon built a high reputation. After returning to Basel for four years, in 1532 he resumed his career in England, where he worked for Anne Boleyn

Anne Boleyn

Anne Boleyn ;c.1501/1507 – 19 May 1536) was Queen of England from 1533 to 1536 as the second wife of Henry VIII of England and Marquess of Pembroke in her own right. Henry's marriage to Anne, and her subsequent execution, made her a key figure in the political and religious upheaval that was the...

 and Thomas Cromwell, and was appointed King's Painter to Henry VIII

Henry VIII of England

Henry VIII was King of England from 21 April 1509 until his death. He was Lord, and later King, of Ireland, as well as continuing the nominal claim by the English monarchs to the Kingdom of France...

. In this role, he produced designs for jewellery, plate, and other precious objects, as well as for festive decorations. His portraits of the king and his family and courtiers provide a vivid record of a brilliant court, during a momentous period when Henry was assuming power as the Supreme Head

Supreme Head

Supreme Head of the Church of England was a title held by King Henry VIII of England signifying his leadership of the Church of England.-History:...

 of the English church

Church of England

The Church of England is the officially established Christian church in England and the Mother Church of the worldwide Anglican Communion. The church considers itself within the tradition of Western Christianity and dates its formal establishment principally to the mission to England by St...

.

Paintings

Work	Description	Date	Medium	Size	Location
	Head of a Female Saint, attributed to Holbein	c. 1515–16	Oil and tempera on spruce Spruce A spruce is a tree of the genus Picea , a genus of about 35 species of coniferous evergreen trees in the Family Pinaceae, found in the northern temperate and boreal regions of the earth. Spruces are large trees, from tall when mature, and can be distinguished by their whorled branches and conical...  wood	23.5 × 21.5 cm	Kunstmuseum Basel Kunstmuseum Basel The Kunstmuseum Basel houses the largest and most significant public art collection in Switzerland, and is listed as a heritage site of national significance. Its lineage extends back to the Amerbach Cabinet purchased by the city of Basel in 1661, which made it the first municipally owned museum...
	Head of a Male Saint, attributed to Holbein	c. 1515–16	Oil and tempera on spruce wood	23.5 × 21.5 cm	Kunstmuseum Basel
	Portrait of Jakob Meyer zum Hasen	1516	Oil Oil paint Oil paint is a type of slow-drying paint that consists of particles of pigment suspended in a drying oil, commonly linseed oil. The viscosity of the paint may be modified by the addition of a solvent such as turpentine or white spirit, and varnish may be added to increase the glossiness of the...  and tempera Tempera Tempera, also known as egg tempera, is a permanent fast-drying painting medium consisting of colored pigment mixed with a water-soluble binder medium . Tempera also refers to the paintings done in this medium. Tempera paintings are very long lasting, and examples from the 1st centuries AD still exist...  on limewood Tilia Tilia is a genus of about 30 species of trees native throughout most of the temperate Northern Hemisphere. The greatest species diversity is found in Asia, and the genus also occurs in Europe and eastern North America, but not western North America...	38.5 × 31 cm	Kunstmuseum Basel
	Portrait of Dorothea Meyer, wife of Jakob Meyer zum Hasen	1516	Oil and tempera on limewood	38.5 × 31 cm	Kunstmuseum Basel
	Signboard for the Schoolmaster Oswald Myconius (with Ambrosius Holbein Ambrosius Holbein Ambrosius Holbein was a German and Swiss artist in painting, drawing and printmaking.-Biography:He was the elder brother, by about three years, of Hans Holbein the Younger and like his brother was born in Augsburg , a center of art, culture and trade at that time... )	1516	Oil and tempera on pine Pine Pines are trees in the genus Pinus ,in the family Pinaceae. They make up the monotypic subfamily Pinoideae. There are about 115 species of pine, although different authorities accept between 105 and 125 species.-Etymology:...  panel	55.5 × 65.5 cm	Kunstmuseum Basel
	Adam and Eve	1517	Oil and tempera on paper mounted on pine	30.2 × 35.7 cm	Kunstmuseum Basel
	Portrait of Benedikt von Hertenstein	1517	Oil and tempera on paper mounted on wood	52.4 × 38.1 cm	Metropolitan Museum of Art Metropolitan Museum of Art The Metropolitan Museum of Art is a renowned art museum in New York City. Its permanent collection contains more than two million works, divided into nineteen curatorial departments. The main building, located on the eastern edge of Central Park along Manhattan's Museum Mile, is one of the... , New York
	Portrait of Bonifacius Amerbach	1519	Oil and tempera on pine	28.5 × 27.4 cm	Kunstmuseum Basel
	Oberried Altarpiece, The Adoration of the Magi, left panel	c 1520	Oil and tempera on pine	230 × 109 cm	University Chapel of the Cathedral, Freiburg im Breisgau
	Oberried Altarpiece, The Birth of Christ, right panel	c 1520	Oil and tempera on pine	230 × 109 cm	University Chapel of the Cathedral, Freiburg im Breisgau
	The Body of the Dead Christ in the Tomb The Body of the Dead Christ in the Tomb The Body of the Dead Christ in the Tomb is an oil and tempera on limewood painting created by the German artist and printmaker Hans Holbein the Younger between 1520–22. The work shows a life-size, grotesque depiction of the stretched and unnaturally thin body of Jesus Christ lying in his tomb...	1521–22	Oil and tempera on limewood	30.6 × 200 cm	Kunstmuseum Basel
	The Solothurn Madonna	1522	Oil and tempera on limewood	140.5 × 102 cm	Kunstmuseum Solothurn Solothurn The city of Solothurn is the capital of the Canton of Solothurn in Switzerland. The city also comprises the only municipality of the district of the same name.-Pre-roman settlement:...
	Portrait of Erasmus of Rotterdam writing	1523	Oil and tempera on paper mounted on pine	36.8 × 30.5 cm	Kunstmuseum Basel
	Portrait of Erasmus of Rotterdam writing	1523	Oil and tempera on wood	43 × 33 cm	Louvre Louvre The Musée du Louvre – in English, the Louvre Museum or simply the Louvre – is one of the world's largest museums, the most visited art museum in the world and a historic monument. A central landmark of Paris, it is located on the Right Bank of the Seine in the 1st arrondissement... , Paris
	Portrait of Erasmus of Rotterdam	1523	Oil and tempera on wood	76 × 51 cm	National Gallery, London National Gallery, London The National Gallery is an art museum on Trafalgar Square, London, United Kingdom. Founded in 1824, it houses a collection of over 2,300 paintings dating from the mid-13th century to 1900. The gallery is an exempt charity, and a non-departmental public body of the Department for Culture, Media... , on loan from Longford Castle Longford Castle Longford Castle is located on the banks of the River Avon south of Salisbury, Wiltshire, England.In 1573 Thomas Gorges, of Langford acquired the manor , which was originally owned by the Cervingtons. Prior to this the existing mansion house had been damaged by fire...
	Printer's Device of Johannes Froben	c 1523	Tempera on canvas, heightened with gold	44 × 31 cm	Kunstmuseum Basel
	Allegory of the Old and New Law	Unknown date between 1524 and 1535	Oil and tempera on oak Oak An oak is a tree or shrub in the genus Quercus , of which about 600 species exist. "Oak" may also appear in the names of species in related genera, notably Lithocarpus...	49 × 60 cm	National Gallery of Scotland National Gallery of Scotland The National Gallery of Scotland, in Edinburgh, is the national art gallery of Scotland. An elaborate neoclassical edifice, it stands on The Mound, between the two sections of Edinburgh's Princes Street Gardens... , Edinburgh
	The Passion altarpiece, the two left panels	c. 1524–25	Oil and tempera on limewood	136 × 31 cm and 149.5 × 31 cm	Kunstmuseum Basel
	The Passion altarpiece, the two right panels	1524–25	Oil and tempera on limewood	149.5 × 31 cm and 136 × 31 cm	Kunstmuseum Basel
	The Last Supper	c 1524–25	Oil and tempera on limewood	115.5 × 97.3 cm	Kunstmuseum Basel
	Venus and Amor Venus and Amor Venus and Amor is a c. 1524 painting by the German painter and printmaker Hans Holbein the Younger, conserved in the Öffentliche Kunstsammlung, Basel, Germany. The work is Holbein's earliest mythological painting, and depicts the Roman goddess of love, Venus, with her son Amor...	c. 1524–25	Oil and tempera on limewood	34.6 × 26.2 cm	Kunstmuseum Basel
	Lais of Corinth Lais of Corinth (Hans Holbein the Younger) Lais of Corinth by Hans Holbein the Younger portrays the famous Lais of Corinth, a courtesan of ancient Greece who charged a high price for her favours. It has been suggested that Holbein is also referring to the Lais who was the lover of Apelles, the great painter of antiquity...	1526	Oil and tempera on limewood	34.6 × 26.8 cm	Kunstmuseum Basel
	The Darmstadt Madonna (the Madonna of Jakob Meyer zum Hasen)	1526 and 1528–30	Oil and tempera on limewood	146.5 × 102 cm	Schlossmuseum, Darmstadt Darmstadt Darmstadt is a city in the Bundesland of Hesse in Germany, located in the southern part of the Rhine Main Area.The sandy soils in the Darmstadt area, ill-suited for agriculture in times before industrial fertilisation, prevented any larger settlement from developing, until the city became the seat...
	Noli me Tangere	Unknown date, perhaps 1526 to 1528	Oil and tempera on oak	76.8 × 94.9 cm	Royal Collection Royal Collection The Royal Collection is the art collection of the British Royal Family. It is property of the monarch as sovereign, but is held in trust for her successors and the nation. It contains over 7,000 paintings, 40,000 watercolours and drawings, and about 150,000 old master prints, as well as historical...
	Portrait of Sir Thomas More Portrait of Sir Thomas More (Holbein) Portrait of Sir Thomas More is a 1527 commissioned painting on oak by the German artist and printmaker Hans Holbein the Younger.The work was created during the period from 1526 when Holbein lived in London...	1527	Oil and tempera on oak	74.2 × 59 cm	Frick Collection Frick Collection The Frick Collection is an art museum located in Manhattan, New York City, United States.- History :It is housed in the former Henry Clay Frick House, which was designed by Thomas Hastings and constructed in 1913-1914. John Russell Pope altered and enlarged the building in the early 1930s to adapt... , New York
	Portrait of William Warham, Archbishop of Canterbury	1527	Oil and tempera on oak	82 × 67 cm	Louvre, Paris
	Portrait of Sir Henry Guildford	1527	Oil and tempera on oak	82.6 × 66.4 cm	Royal Collection, Windsor Castle Windsor Castle Windsor Castle is a medieval castle and royal residence in Windsor in the English county of Berkshire, notable for its long association with the British royal family and its architecture. The original castle was built after the Norman invasion by William the Conqueror. Since the time of Henry I it...
	Portrait of Mary, Lady Guildford	1527	Oil and tempera on oak	87 × 70.5 cm	Saint Louis Art Museum Saint Louis Art Museum The Saint Louis Art Museum is one of the principal U.S. art museums, visited by up to a half million people every year. Admission is free through a subsidy from the cultural tax district for St. Louis City and County.Located in Forest Park in St... , Saint Louis, Missouri
	Portrait of a Lady with a Squirrel and a Starling	c. 1527–28	Oil and tempera on oak	54 × 38.7 cm	National Gallery, London
	Portrait of Thomas Godsalve and his son John	1528	Oil and tempera on oak	35 × 36 cm	Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister The Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister in Dresden features major works of art. It is located in the gallery wing of the Zwinger.... , Dresden
	Portrait of Nikolaus Kratzer	1528	Oil and tempera on oak	83 × 67 cm	Louvre, Paris
	The Artist's Family	c. 1528	Oil and tempera on paper, cut out and mounted on wood	76.8 × 64 cm	Kunstmuseum Basel
	Rehoboam, fragment of wall painting	1530	Painting on plaster	28 × 41.5 cm	Kunstmuseum Basel
	Roundel Portrait of Erasmus of Rotterdam	c. 1532	Oil and tempera on limewood	10 cm diameter	Kunstmuseum Basel
	Portrait of Hermann von Wedigh	1532	Oil and tempera on wood	42.2 × 32.4 cm	Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
	Portrait of the Merchant Georg Gisze	1532	Oil and tempera on oak	90.3 × 85.7 cm	Berlin State Museums Berlin State Museums The Berlin State Museums, in German Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, are a group of museums in Berlin, Germany overseen by the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and funded by the German federal government in collaboration with Germany's federal states...
	Portrait of Thomas Cromwell	c. 1532–33	Oil and tempera on oak	76 × 61 cm	Frick Collection, New York
	Portrait of a Man, possibly Hans of Antwerp	c. 1532–33	Oil and tempera on oak		National Portrait Gallery, London
	Portrait of a Woman in a White Coif	c. 1532–34	Oil and tempera on oak	23.4 × 18.8 cm	Detroit Institute of Arts Detroit Institute of Arts The Detroit Institute of Arts is a renowned art museum in the city of Detroit. In 2003, the DIA ranked as the second largest municipally owned museum in the United States, with an art collection valued at more than one billion dollars...
	Portrait of William Reskimer	c. 1532–34	Oil and tempera on oak	46.4 × 33.7 cm	Royal Collection, Windsor Castle
	Portrait of Philipp Melanchthon	c. 1530–1535	Oil and tempera on oak	9 cm diameter	Lower Saxony State Museum Lower Saxony State Museum The Lower Saxony State Museum is a museum in Hanover, Germany. It is located opposite the New City Hall. The museum comprises the State Gallery , featuring paintings and sculptures from the Middle Ages to the 20th century, plus departments of archaeology, natural history and ethnology... , Hanover
	Portrait of a Man in a Red Cap	c. 1532–35	Oil and tempera on wood	9.5 cm diameter	Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
	Portrait of Derich Born	1533	Oil and tempera on oak	60.3 × 45 cm	Royal Collection, Windsor Castle
	Portrait of Robert Cheseman	1533	Oil and tempera on oak	59 × 62.5 cm	Mauritshuis Mauritshuis The Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis is an art museum in The Hague, the Netherlands. Previously the residence of count John Maurice of Nassau, it now has a large art collection, including paintings by Dutch painters such as Johannes Vermeer, Rembrandt van Rijn, Jan Steen, Paulus Potter and Frans... , The Hague
	Portrait of a Member of the Von Wedigh Family (Called Hermann Hillebrandt von Wedigh)	1533	Oil and tempera on oak	39 × 30 cm	Berlin State Museums
	Portrait of Dirk Tybis	1533	Oil and tempera on oak	48 × 35 cm	Kunsthistorisches Museum Kunsthistorisches Museum The Kunsthistorisches Museum is an art museum in Vienna, Austria. Housed in its festive palatial building on Ringstraße, it is crowned with an octagonal dome... , Vienna
	Portrait of Cyriacus Kale	1533	Oil and tempera on oak	60 × 44 cm	Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum The Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum is an art museum in the German city of Braunschweig, Lower Saxony.Founded in 1754, the Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum is one of the oldest museums in Europe. It houses a collection of masters of Western art, including Cranach, Holbein, Van Dyck, Vermeer, Rubens, and... , Braunschweig
	Double Portrait of Jean de Dinteville and Georges de Selve ("The Ambassadors") The Ambassadors (Holbein) The Ambassadors is a painting by Hans Holbein the Younger in the National Gallery, London. As well as being a double portrait, the painting contains a still life of several meticulously rendered objects, the meaning of which is the cause of much debate...	1533	Oil and tempera on oak	207 × 209 cm	National Gallery, London
	Portrait of Sir Brian Tuke	c. 1533–35	Oil and tempera on oak	49.1 × 38.5 cm	National Gallery of Art National Gallery of Art The National Gallery of Art and its Sculpture Garden is a national art museum, located on the National Mall between 3rd and 9th Streets at Constitution Avenue NW, in Washington, DC... , Washington, D. C.
	E Cosi Desio me Mena, Allegory of Love	c. 1533–36	Oil on oak in lozenge format	45 × 45 cm	J. Paul Getty Museum J. Paul Getty Museum The J. Paul Getty Museum, a program of the J. Paul Getty Trust, is an art museum. It has two locations, one at the Getty Center in Los Angeles, California, and one at the Getty Villa in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, California... , Los Angeles
	Portrait of a Court Official	1534	Oil and tempera on limewood	12 cm diameter	Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
	Portrait of a Court Official's Wife	1534	Oil and tempera on limewood	12 cm diameter	Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
	Portrait of Charles de Solier, Sieur de Morette	1534–35	Oil and tempera on oak	92.5 × 75.4 cm	Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden
	Portrait of a Man with a Lute	c. 1533–36	Oil and tempera on oak	43.5 × 43.5 cm	Berlin State Museums
	Solomon and the Queen of Sheba	c. 1534–35	Pen and brush in bistre and grey wash, heightened in white, gold, and oxidised silver with red and green watercolour over black chalk on vellum	22.9 × 18.2 cm	Royal Library, Windsor Royal Library, Windsor The office of Royal Librarian, in the Royal Collection Department of the Royal Household of the Sovereign of the United Kingdom, is responsible for the care and maintenance of the royal collection of books and manuscripts owned by the Sovereign in an official capacity, as distinct from those owned...
	Portrait of Simon George	c. 1534–37	Oil and tempera on oak	Diameter 31 cm	Städelsches Kunstinstitut Städel The Städel, officially the Städelsches Kunstinstitut und Städtische Galerie, is an art museum in Frankfurt am Main, with one of the most important collections in Germany.... , Frankfurt
	Portrait of Derich Berck	1536	Oil and tempera transferred to canvas	53.3 × 42.6 cm	Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
	Portrait Miniature of William Roper	c. 1536	Bodycolour on vellum mounted on card	4.5 cm diameter	Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
	Portrait Miniature of Margaret Roper Portrait Miniature of Margaret Roper Portrait Miniature of Margaret Roper is a painting by the German artist and printmaker Hans Holbein the Younger created between 1535–36, and today held in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Margaret Roper was the eldest child of Sir Thomas More and wife of the English biographer William...	c. 1536	Bodycolour on vellum mounted on card	4.5 cm diameter	Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
	Portrait of Sir Richard Southwell	1536	Oil and tempera on oak	47.5 × 38 cm	Uffizi Uffizi The Uffizi Gallery , is a museum in Florence, Italy. It is one of the oldest and most famous art museums of the Western world.-History:... , Florence
	Portrait of Sir Henry Wyatt	c. 1537	Oil and tempera on oak	39 × 31 cm	Louvre, Paris
	Portrait of Henry VIII Portrait of Henry VIII Portrait of Henry VIII is a lost work by Hans Holbein the Younger depicting Henry VIII. While destroyed by fire in 1698 it is still well known today through many copies. It is one of the most iconic images of Henry and is one of the most famed portraits of any British monarch...	c. 1536–37	Oil and tempera on oak	28 × 20 cm	Fundación Colección, Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
	Portrait of Jane Seymour	1537	Oil and tempera on oak	65 × 40 cm	Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Mural of Henry VIII, Jane Seymour, Henry VII, and Elizabeth of York Portrait of Henry VIII Portrait of Henry VIII is a lost work by Hans Holbein the Younger depicting Henry VIII. While destroyed by fire in 1698 it is still well known today through many copies. It is one of the most iconic images of Henry and is one of the most famed portraits of any British monarch...	1536–1537			Destroyed in Whitehall Palace fire, 1698
	Portrait of Christina of Denmark	1538	Oil and tempera on oak	179 × 82.5 cm	National Gallery, London
	Portrait Miniature of Elizabeth, Lady Audley	c. 1538	Watercolour on vellum mounted on playing card	5.6 cm diameter	Royal Collection, Windsor castle
	Portrait of Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk	c. 1539	Oil and tempera on oak	80.3 × 61.6 cm	Royal Collection, Windsor Castle
	Portrait of Edward, Prince of Wales	c. 1539	Oil and tempera on oak	57 × 44 cm	National gallery of Art, Washington, D. C.
	Portrait of Anne of Cleves Anne of Cleves Anne of Cleves was a German noblewoman and the fourth wife of Henry VIII of England and as such she was Queen of England from 6 January 1540 to 9 July 1540. The marriage was never consummated, and she was not crowned queen consort...	c. 1539	Oil and tempera on parchment Parchment Parchment is a thin material made from calfskin, sheepskin or goatskin, often split. Its most common use was as a material for writing on, for documents, notes, or the pages of a book, codex or manuscript. It is distinct from leather in that parchment is limed but not tanned; therefore, it is very...  mounted on canvas	65 × 48 cm	Louvre, Paris
	Portrait Miniature of Anne of Cleves	c. 1539	Watercolour and gum on vellum in ivory case	4.6 cm diameter	Victoria and Albert Museum Victoria and Albert Museum The Victoria and Albert Museum , set in the Brompton district of The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, London, England, is the world's largest museum of decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 4.5 million objects... , London
	Portrait Miniature of an Unknown Lady, possibly Queen Catherine Howard Catherine Howard Catherine Howard , also spelled Katherine, Katheryn or Kathryn, was the fifth wife of Henry VIII of England, and sometimes known by his reference to her as his "rose without a thorn"....	c. 1540	Bodycolour Gouache Gouache[p], also spelled guache, the name of which derives from the Italian guazzo, water paint, splash or bodycolor is a type of paint consisting of pigment suspended in water. A binding agent, usually gum arabic, is also present, just as in watercolor...  on vellum Vellum Vellum is mammal skin prepared for writing or printing on, to produce single pages, scrolls, codices or books. It is generally smooth and durable, although there are great variations depending on preparation, the quality of the skin and the type of animal used...  mounted on playing card	6.4 cm diameter	Royal Collection, Windsor Castle
	Portrait of an Unknown Lady	c. 1540	Oil and tempera on oak	74 × 48 cm	Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
	Portrait Miniature of Jane Small Jane Small Jane Small was a daughter of Christopher Pemberton, a Northamptonshire gentleman. She is the subject of a well known portrait miniature by the artist Holbein.-Life:... , also called "Jane Pemberton"	c. 1540	Bodycolour on vellum Vellum Vellum is mammal skin prepared for writing or printing on, to produce single pages, scrolls, codices or books. It is generally smooth and durable, although there are great variations depending on preparation, the quality of the skin and the type of animal used...	5.3 cm diameter	Victoria and Albert Museum, London
	Portrait of an Unknown Man, Holding his Gloves and a Letter		Oil and tempera on oak		Private collection
	Portrait of an Unknown Man	c. 1540–43	Oil and tempera on oak		English Heritage, Audley End House Audley End House Audley End House is largely an early 17th-century country house just outside Saffron Walden, Essex, south of Cambridge, England. It was once a palace in all but name and renowned as one of the finest Jacobean houses in England. Audley End is now only one-third of its original size, but is still...
	Portrait Miniature of Henry Brandon	1541	Bodycolour on vellum mounted on playing card	5.7 cm diameter	Royal Collection, Windsor Castle
	Portrait Miniature of Charles Brandon	1541	Bodycolour on vellum mounted on playing card	5.7 cm diameter	Royal Collection, Windsor Castle
	Portrait of an Unknown Man at his Desk	1541	Oil and tempera on oak	46.5 × 34.8 cm	Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
	Portrait of a Man with a Falcon	1542	Oil and tempera on oak	25 × 19 cm	Mauritshuis Mauritshuis The Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis is an art museum in The Hague, the Netherlands. Previously the residence of count John Maurice of Nassau, it now has a large art collection, including paintings by Dutch painters such as Johannes Vermeer, Rembrandt van Rijn, Jan Steen, Paulus Potter and Frans... , The Hague
	Portrait of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey	c. 1541–43	Oil and tempera on oak	55.5 × 44 cm	São Paulo Museum of Art, Brazil
	Portrait of an Unknown Lady	c. 1541–43	Oil and tempera on oak	19.2 × 15.3 cm	Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
	Self-portrait	c. 1542-1543	Coloured chalks and pen	32× 26 cm	Uffizi, Florence
	Portrait of Dr John Chambers	c. 1543	Oil and tempera on oak	51 × 44 cm	Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
	Portrait of Sir William Butts	c. 1543	Oil and tempera, formerly on oak panel, transferred to canvas in 1941	47 × 36.8 cm	Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum or Fenway Court, as the museum was known during Isabella Stewart Gardner's lifetime, is a museum in the Fenway-Kenmore neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, located within walking distance of the Museum of Fine Arts and near the Back Bay Fens... , Boston
	Portrait of Lady Margaret Butts	1543	Oil and tempera on oak	46 × 37 cm	Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
	Portrait of Antony the Good, Duke of Lorraine	c. 1543	Oil and tempera on oak	51 × 37 cm	Berlin State Museums
	Henry VIII and the Barber Surgeons, reworked and overpainted by other hands	c. 1543	Oil on oak	108.3 × 312.4 cm	Worshipful Company of Barbers Worshipful Company of Barbers The Worshipful Company of Barbers is one of the Livery Companies of the City of London. The organisation's records date as early as 1308, recording Richard le Barber as the first to hold the office of Master.... , London

Copies and derivative works

Work	Description	Date	Medium	Size	Location
	Portrait of Nikolaus Kratzer, after Holbein	c. 1528	Oil on panel		National Portrait Gallery (London)
	Portrait of Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam, Holbein's workshop	c. 1530	Oil and tempera on limewood	18.2 × 14.5 cm	Kunstmuseum Basel Kunstmuseum Basel The Kunstmuseum Basel houses the largest and most significant public art collection in Switzerland, and is listed as a heritage site of national significance. Its lineage extends back to the Amerbach Cabinet purchased by the city of Basel in 1661, which made it the first municipally owned museum...
	Portrait of Sir Nicholas Carew, workshop or follower of Holbein	Probably 1530s	Oil and tempera on wood	95.3 × 112 cm	Duke of Buccleuch, Drumlanrig Castle Drumlanrig Castle Drumlanrig Castle sits on the Queensberry Estate in Scotland's Dumfries and Galloway.The Castle is the Dumfriesshire family home to the Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch and Queensberry... , Dumfries
	Portrait of an Unidentified Gentleman, workshop or follower of Holbein	1535	Oil on oak		Metropolitan Museum of Art Metropolitan Museum of Art The Metropolitan Museum of Art is a renowned art museum in New York City. Its permanent collection contains more than two million works, divided into nineteen curatorial departments. The main building, located on the eastern edge of Central Park along Manhattan's Museum Mile, is one of the... , New York
	Portrait of Sir Nicholas Poyntz, after Holbein	c.1535	Oil on panel		National Portrait Gallery, London
	Portrait of an Unidentified Man, possibly Hans of Antwerp, workshop of Holbein	c. 1535–40	Oil and tempera on oak	13 cm diameter	Victoria and Albert Museum Victoria and Albert Museum The Victoria and Albert Museum , set in the Brompton district of The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, London, England, is the world's largest museum of decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 4.5 million objects... , London.
	Portrait of Jane Seymour, after Holbein	c. 1537	Oil and tempera on oak	26.3 × 18.7 cm	Mauritshuis, The Hague
	Portrait Miniature of Thomas Cromwell, after Holbein		Watercolour and bodycolour on vellum		National Portrait Gallery, London
	Portrait of Prince Edward, after Holbein	16th century,	Oil on panel		Berger Collection, Denver Art Museum Denver Art Museum The Denver Art Museum is an art museum in Denver, Colorado located in Denver's Civic Center.It is known for its collection of American Indian art,and has a comprehensive collection numbering more than 68,000 works from across the world....
	Portrait of Henry VIII, Holbein's workshop	c 1540	Oil on oak	88.2 × 75 cm	Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica The Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, or National Gallery of Ancient Art, is an art gallery in Rome, Italy, located on two sites: the Palazzo Barberini and the Palazzo Corsini.... , Rome
	Portrait of Elizabeth, Lady Rich, after Holbein	c 1540	Oil and tempera on wood (probably oak)		Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
	Portrait of Henry VIII in a Great Coat Holding a Staff, after Holbein	1542	Oil and tempera on oak	92.7 × 66.7 cm	Castle Howard Castle Howard Castle Howard is a stately home in North Yorkshire, England, north of York. One of the grandest private residences in Britain, most of it was built between 1699 and 1712 for the 3rd Earl of Carlisle, to a design by Sir John Vanbrugh... , Yorkshire
	Portrait Miniature of Hans Holbein the Younger, copy of Holbein's self-portrait, probably by Lucas Horenbout Lucas Horenbout Lucas Horenbout, often called Hornebolte in England, was a Flemish artist who moved to England in the mid-1520s and worked there as "King's Painter" and court miniaturist to King Henry VIII from 1525 until his death...	1543	Watercolour on vellum mounted on playing card	3.7 cm diameter	Wallace Collection Wallace Collection The Wallace Collection is a museum in London, with a world-famous range of fine and decorative arts from the 15th to the 19th centuries with large holdings of French 18th-century paintings, furniture, arms & armour, porcelain and Old Master paintings arranged into 25 galleries.It was established in... , London
	Portrait of Henry VIII, after Holbein	After 1537, possibly c 1567	Oil on canvas	233.7 × 134.6 cm	Walker Art Gallery Walker Art Gallery The Walker Art Gallery is an art gallery in Liverpool, which houses one of the largest art collections in England, outside of London. It is part of the National Museums Liverpool group, and is promoted as "the National Gallery of the North" because it is not a local or regional gallery but is part... , Liverpool
	Portrait of Sir William Butts, after Holbein	c 1543	Oil on panel	47 × 37.5 cm	National Portrait Gallery, London
	Portrait of George Brooke, 9th Baron Cobham		Oil on panel		Private collection
	Portrait Miniature of Thomas Wriothesley, 1st Earl of Southampton, after Holbein	Probably second half of 16th century	Watercolour on vellum laid on card	Oval of	Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
	The Family of Thomas More, by Rowland Lockey Rowland Lockey Rowland Lockey was an English painter and goldsmith. The son of Leonard Lockey, a crossbow maker of the parish of St Bride's, Fleet Street, London, Lockey was apprenticed to Queen Elizabeth's miniaturist and goldsmith Nicholas Hilliard for eight years beginning Michaelmas 1581 and was made a... , after Holbein's lost painting	1592	Oil on canvas		Nostell Priory Nostell Priory Nostell Priory is a Palladian house located in Nostell, near Crofton close to Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England, approached by the Doncaster road from Wakefield... , West Yorkshire
	Dresden Madonna, copy by Bartholomäus Sarburgh of Holbein's Darmstadt Madonna	c. 1635–37	Oil on oak	159 × 103 cm	Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister The Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister in Dresden features major works of art. It is located in the gallery wing of the Zwinger.... , Dresden
	Portrait of Johann Froben, after Holbein	16th or beginning of 17th century, after an original of 1520–26	Oil and tempera on oak	39.5 × 33.5 cm	Kunstmuseum Basel
	Portrait of Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam, Holbein's workshop, with later additions	c. 1523–40, background c. 1629	Oil on wood		Royal Collection, Windsor Castle
	Henry VII, Elizabeth of York, Henry VIII, and Jane Seymour, copy by Remigius van Leemput of Holbein's Whitehall Mural, destroyed by fire in 1698	1667	Oil on canvas	88.9 × 99.2 cm	Royal Collection, Windsor Castle

External links

• 2006 exhibition Holbein in England at Tate Britain