The Hartford museum is hosting an event called Gallery Talk – Hans Holbein’s Portrait of Henry VIII with Matthew Hargraves and Oliver Tostmann – on May 3. Wadsworth said the Henry VIII ...

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Some portraits of power, though, have proved deadly. Henry VIII’s courtier, Thomas Cromwell, asked the painter Hans Holbein the Younger to paint a picture of a potential fourth wife, Anne of Cleaves, ...

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The Renaissance court portraiture “Portrait of Henry VIII (1540)” was created by Hans Holbein. It’s on special loan from the Palazzo Barberini in Rome through the summer. Wadsworth museum ...

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Henry VIII: Britain’s most famous king ... Tempted into marrying her after seeing a beautiful portrait by Hans Holbein, he was disappointed to discover she wasn’t as enchanting as he ...

A museum in Hartford is now featuring a famous portrait of Henry VIII. The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art said Hans Holbein’s Portrait of Henry VIII (1540) is currently on display.

For decades, historians piled layer after layer of interpretation upon Henry VIII's astute chief ... heavy-jowled visage captured by artist Hans Holbein in a portrait done from life circa 1534.