File:Nicholas Bourbon by Hans Holbein the Younger.jpg
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Portrait of Nicolas Bourbon. Black and coloured chalks, pen and ink on pink-primed paper, 38.4 × 28.3 cm, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Collection" class="extiw" title="w:Royal Collection">Royal Collection</a>, Windsor Castle. The French poet <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Bourbon" class="extiw" title="w:Nicolas Bourbon">Nicolas Bourbon</a> (1503–after 1550) met Holbein when the former came to England in 1535 after being imprisoned in France for supporting religious reform. He was welcomed and helped in England by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Boleyn" class="extiw" title="w:Anne Boleyn">Anne Boleyn</a>, a reformist and a patron of Holbein. This is a preparatory drawing for a painting, now lost. Of the painting, Bourbon wrote: "Hans in painting me was greater than Apelles", referring to the famous painter of Greek antiquity (Susan Foister, Holbein in England, London: Tate, 2006, <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/1854376454" class="internal mw-magiclink-isbn">ISBN 1854376454</a>. p. 53).
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| current | 05:50, 17 January 2017 | | 1,261 × 1,500 (642 KB) | 127.0.0.1 (talk) | <i>Portrait of Nicolas Bourbon.</i> Black and coloured chalks, pen and ink on pink-primed paper, <span style="white-space:nowrap">38.4 × 28.3 cm</span>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Collection" class="extiw" title="w:Royal Collection">Royal Collection</a>, Windsor Castle. The French poet <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Bourbon" class="extiw" title="w:Nicolas Bourbon">Nicolas Bourbon</a> (1503–after 1550) met Holbein when the former came to England in 1535 after being imprisoned in France for supporting religious reform. He was welcomed and helped in England by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Boleyn" class="extiw" title="w:Anne Boleyn">Anne Boleyn</a>, a reformist and a patron of Holbein. This is a preparatory drawing for a painting, now lost. Of the painting, Bourbon wrote: "Hans in painting me was greater than Apelles", referring to the famous painter of Greek antiquity (Susan Foister, <i>Holbein in England</i>, London: Tate, 2006, <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/1854376454" class="internal mw-magiclink-isbn">ISBN 1854376454</a>. p. 53). |
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