Holbein at the Tudor Court focuses on the internationally significant collection of portraits
by Hans Holbein the Younger in the Royal Collection. These portraits in drawing miniature and
painting date almost exclusively from Holbein¿s period as the pre-eminent artist at the court
of Henry VIII. This richly illustrated publication has essays on the artist his sitters and on
the history of his work in the Royal Collection and a series of entries on individual works ¿
looking at both on the work of art and on the identity of the sitter featured and uses where
possible voices from the period (as found in letters poems administrative records and
diplomatic accounts) to bring alive the world of the sixteenth-century English court.
