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Among the most ambitious works undertaken by Hans Holbein the Younger during his first visit to England was a monumental portrait of Sir Thomas More and his household, painted around 1527. The original, measuring approximately eight by thirteen feet, was destroyed in a fire at Kremsier Castle, in present-day Czechia, in 1752. Its disappearance representsContinue reading “Hans Holbein the Younger: The Lost Portrait of Sir Thomas More’s Family”