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HOLBEIN, Hans the Younger: Portrait of Henry Howard, the Earl of Surrey

🖼 Portrait of Henry Howard, the Earl of Surrey, 1541-43
Oil on wood
56 × 44 cm
São Paulo, Brazil

Rendered in precise oils, the young nobleman commands the canvas with confident stance and jeweled fingers, his face sharp and aristocratic against a muted ground. Holbein's penetrating portraiture became the standard for Tudor court representation, establishing the psychological intensity that defined sixteenth-century royal imagery.

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