HOLBEIN'S FAMOUS PICTURE

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume IX, Issue 2570, 5 June 1909, Page 2

HOLBEIN'S FAMOUS PICTURE

SAVED TO DENMARK. m »JC T() THE RESCUE. ' IVew (liwuiml June o. 8.45 am) V C()l'EXliA(;EX.J llllu .i. ]n wiinection with (ho «de of H„|. .om'« uict«r»...«Chri s li„ II 0 f DoSilS" t i;;rmvha r ~,s about ( oM lli til A pin loiviVo.OOO. wl,en public sub wuphoiw it for tho natioa. An »»«".vmou s donor ~m . UOOO, and til In-nsury added £IO,OOO.

Haiis Ho bom, a German painter, van '«'•» >n W97. His work attracted Ibo a en ion o Erasmus who fcdod i in to go to England, where/ under Hi« iratroiingu of Hcnrj Vlll,'he reexecuting numerous portraits "I ctnirheni. till life doatli from plaguo »i J oil. He to despatched to tlio court ol the Netherlands to paint a likem'ss of Christina of Denmark, who had been propped as n successor to Jane Seymour as queen to Henry VIII. In' !i three Junius' sitting he executed a sketch "very perlliglil,," to givo the 'liiniiit i-pt'lluig of the old record, and* from thin he produced the nohlo fulllength that has for so long been in the possesion of the Duke of XnrfoJJt. This work is regarded as one of the painter's, choicest masterpieces, most attractive* in the iniietude of it,- execution, and in .'. iti< rendering of feminine sweetness and innocence.