The Fine Arts Quarterly Review Volume 2 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1867 Excerpt: ... THE FINE ARTS QUARTERLY REVIEW. JUNE, 186.7. HANS HOLBEIN Holbein is an international artist. He passed his youth in the old Imperial town of Augsburg, in Germany. When he had founded his reputation, he went to Basel, which at the time of his childhood (in 1501) had separated from the German empire, in order to become a member of the Swiss confederation; and in the prime of manhood he migrated to England, where he attained both fame and competence. No wonder, then, that his biography should have been elucidated almost simultaneously by three writers belonging to the three several countries. Mr Edward His-Heusler, a gentleman of Basel, made in the record offices of his native town some most important discoveries concerning the domestic life of the great artist, and published them in 1866, through the medium of a local magazine. Dr Woltmann, a German, from Berlin, followed Holbein Holbein und seine Zeit. Von Dr Alfred Woltmann. Erster Theil. Mir 31 Holzschnittenund einerPhotolithographic Leipzig, Seemann, 1866. Svo. Some Account of the Life and Works of Tol. 11.--N. s. 15 Hans Holbein, Painter, of Augsburg. With numerous illustrations. ByRalph Nicholson Wornum, Keeper and Secretary National Gallery. London, Chapman and Hall, 1867. 4to. patiently through all the places of Germany and Switzerland where he lived, examining his works still extant, and discovering a great many new facts; so that for the continental half of Holbein's career he has been an authority for his successor, Mr Wornum. The latter is quite original in the careful investigation of Holbein's English life, and the accurate review of the works he painted in England. But we must not omit the most important discovery of Holbein's will by Mr W. H. Black, which was communicated by him to the Socie...