Hans Holbein the Younger

Holbein paints sitters with cool, microscopic precision — every fur, jewel, and texture exact, faces calm and incisive. Look for sober realism, razor-sharp detail, and shrewd Tudor portraiture.

Hans Holbein the Younger (1497–1543) was a painter from Germany, associated with Northern Renaissance.

The 15th–16th-century flowering of the Low Countries and Germany — oil glazes, microscopic detail, and sharp, worldly realism. Northern Renaissance →

More Northern Renaissance painters: Albrecht Dürer, Jan van Eyck, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Hieronymus Bosch.