File:Derich Born by Hans Holbein the Younger.jpg
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Summary
Hans Holbein the Younger: Derich Born (1510?-> 1549)
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| Title |
Derich Born (1510?-> 1549)  |
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| Object type |
painting |
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| Genre |
portrait |
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| Description |
English: Portrait of the Hanseatic merchant, Derich Born, from Cologne. |
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| Date |
1533 |
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| Medium |
oil on panel |
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| Dimensions |
height: 60.3 cm (23.7 in) ; width: 44.9 cm (17.6 in) |
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| Collection |
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| Current location |
King's Closet,
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| Accession number |
RCIN 405681 (Royal Collection) |
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| Inscriptions |
Name of sitter, age and year : DERICHVS SI VOCEM ADDAS IPSISSIMVS HIC SIT / HVNC DVBITES PICTOR FECERIT AN GENITOR / DER BORN ETATIS SVÆ · 23 · ANNO 1533
[If you added a voice, this would be Derich his very self. You would be in doubt whether the painter or his father made him. Der Born aged 23, the year 1533]on the stone parapet |
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| Notes |
English: After he first returned to England from Basel in 1532, Holbein painted a series of portraits of Lutheran merchants of the Steelyard, on the north bank of the Thames. The Cologne merchant Derich Born (1510–49) was at 23 the youngest of his sitters from that community. Born later supplied Henry VIII with military equipment and in 1541 became involved in a dispute with the Duke of Suffolk which led to his expulsion from the Steelyard, lest his quarrel endanger trading privileges there.
The simplified composition was innovative for Holbein and contrasts with his elaborate portrait of the merchant Georg Gisze. The work alludes to Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa and perhaps also to Titian and other Italian portrait styles. The device of the parapet follows the style of Holbein's earlier Venus and Amor and Lais of Corinth, which may have been influenced by the use of the balustrade device in the work of the Venetian artist Giovanni Bellini. The Latin inscription translates: "If you add the voice, Derich is here in person, so that you will doubt whether the painter or the Creator made him".
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