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Letter XXII.
HOLBEIN'S DRAWINGS.
449
Anna Boleyn. I am inclined to doubt whether this stout
strong--featured woman be really Anna Boleyn. At all events
it agrees with no other portrait of the lady (one of which, by
Holbein, is in the Berlin Museum), nor with the descriptions of
her person
Fitzwilliam Earl of Southampton. Remarkable for beauty,
careful execution, and good preservation.
The same applies to Lords Vaux and Cobham.
Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, most animated
and masterly ; the study for Holbein's picture of the same in the
Louvre.
John Collet, Dean of St. Paul's. In conception this drawing
agrees entirely with the studies in the Museum at Basle for the
celebrated picture at Dresden of the Burgomaster Meyer and his
family adoring the Virgin. The execution with the point of the
brush in sepia is as delicately felt as it is careful.
Sir Thomas More. The individuality of this celebrated man is
here more delicately rendered than in Holbein's oil-picture of the
same, for which, however, the pricked outline shows that this
drawing must have served clS el model.
John More, son of the foregoing, taken reading. The com-
bined youthful charm and melancholy expression of the features
are marvellous. A study for the picture of Sir Thomas More and
his family.
Sir Philip Hobbie, Kt, : most delicate in feeling.
Sir —-■ Eliot, Kt. : an honest face, masterly and decided in
the forms, and executed with the point of the brush.
The same may be said of the portrait of his wife.
Mother Jack. Of the most singular truth : very spirited and
broad, and executed with black chalk, mixed with a little red
chalk.
Sir Harry Guildford, Kt. Here the features are regularly
modelled with the stump.
William Sherrington : admirable.
The erroneousness of some of the titles is proved by the inscrip-
tion "Phillip Melancthon"—whose features are so well known by
the portraits by Lucas Cranach and the engraving of Albert
Durer—being given to a totally strange face.
Lady Barkeley. A worthy pendant to Mother Jack.
VOL. n. 2 G
HOLBEIN'S DRAWINGS.
449
Anna Boleyn. I am inclined to doubt whether this stout
strong--featured woman be really Anna Boleyn. At all events
it agrees with no other portrait of the lady (one of which, by
Holbein, is in the Berlin Museum), nor with the descriptions of
her person
Fitzwilliam Earl of Southampton. Remarkable for beauty,
careful execution, and good preservation.
The same applies to Lords Vaux and Cobham.
Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, most animated
and masterly ; the study for Holbein's picture of the same in the
Louvre.
John Collet, Dean of St. Paul's. In conception this drawing
agrees entirely with the studies in the Museum at Basle for the
celebrated picture at Dresden of the Burgomaster Meyer and his
family adoring the Virgin. The execution with the point of the
brush in sepia is as delicately felt as it is careful.
Sir Thomas More. The individuality of this celebrated man is
here more delicately rendered than in Holbein's oil-picture of the
same, for which, however, the pricked outline shows that this
drawing must have served clS el model.
John More, son of the foregoing, taken reading. The com-
bined youthful charm and melancholy expression of the features
are marvellous. A study for the picture of Sir Thomas More and
his family.
Sir Philip Hobbie, Kt, : most delicate in feeling.
Sir —-■ Eliot, Kt. : an honest face, masterly and decided in
the forms, and executed with the point of the brush.
The same may be said of the portrait of his wife.
Mother Jack. Of the most singular truth : very spirited and
broad, and executed with black chalk, mixed with a little red
chalk.
Sir Harry Guildford, Kt. Here the features are regularly
modelled with the stump.
William Sherrington : admirable.
The erroneousness of some of the titles is proved by the inscrip-
tion "Phillip Melancthon"—whose features are so well known by
the portraits by Lucas Cranach and the engraving of Albert
Durer—being given to a totally strange face.
Lady Barkeley. A worthy pendant to Mother Jack.
VOL. n. 2 G