Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Hans Holbein the Younger, Vol. 1 of 2
The writer has availed himself as fully as possible of the newer facts and conclusions embodied in such papers and communications, the source Of information in all cases being fully acknowledged. A very careful study of the Calendars of Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, of the Reign of Henry VIII, extending over a number of years, has enabled him to add some fresh items of information about the painter and certain of his sitters, and of several Of the artists who were his contemporaries in England. He has dealt at some length, though necessarily in a condensed form, with the chief painters and craftsmen, both English and foreign, who were at work in London under Henry VIII, much of the information thus brought together having been hitherto scattered about in a variety Of publi cations not always conveniently accessible to the student. He thus hopes that the book will to some extent serve the purpose for which it is primarily intended - the provision, in as concise a form as possible, of a complete biography of the painter, embodying all the more recent discoveries and he trusts that it may be Of some small service to those who are interested in Holbein, but have neither the time nor the opportunity to avail themselves of the many scattered sources of in formation which he has attempted to bring together within the covers of a single book.
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