HOLBEIN

Hans, the, German painter,, was born in 1497. He studied under his father (Hans Holbein the elder, a painter ot merit), and then settled in Basel until 1526 when he came to England, and his illustrations of the Panegyric on Folly (by Erasmus) procured for him the patronage of Sir Thomas More. Henry VIII.' made him court-painter, so he painted many eminent English men of his time. The Madonna at Darmstadt, the Solothum Madonna, and his Dance of Death (only preserved in an engraving) are famous.