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Hans Holbein the Younger: A Lady with a Squirrel and a Starling (Anne Lovell?)  wikidata:Q18685969 reasonator:Q18685969
Artist
Hans Holbein the Younger  (1497/1498–1543)  wikidata:Q48319 s:it:Autore:Hans Holbein il Giovane q:it:Hans Holbein il Giovane
 
Hans Holbein the Younger
Alternative names
Hans Holbein der Jüngere, Hans Holbein
Description -German painter and drawer
Date of birth/death 1497 or 1498
date QS:P,+1497-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1497-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1498-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
 between 7 October 1543 and 29 November 1543
date QS:P,+1543-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1319,+1543-10-07T00:00:00Z/11,P1326,+1543-11-29T00:00:00Z/11
Location of birth/death Augsburg London
Work location
Basel (1515-1526), Lucerne (1515-1526), Venice (1515), Bologna (1515), Florence (1515), Rome (1515), Venice (1517-1518), Bologna (1517-1518), Florence (1517-1518), Rome (1517-1518), London (1526-1528), Basel (1528-1532), London (1532-1543)
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artist QS:P170,Q48319
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Title
A Lady with a Squirrel and a Starling (Anne Lovell?) Edit this at Wikidata
label QS:Len,"A Lady with a Squirrel and a Starling (Anne Lovell?)"
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Genre portrait Edit this at Wikidata
Description
Portrait of a lady thought to be Anne Lovell, wife of Sir Francis Lovell, who was employed at the court of Henry VIII of England.
Date circa 1526–1528
Medium oil on oak wood
Dimensions height: 56 cm (22 in); width: 38.8 cm (15.2 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,56U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,38.8U174728
institution QS:P195,Q180788
Accession number
NG6540
Notes

A lady wearing a soft cap of dense white fur sits with a red squirrel in her lap and a glossy-feathered starling at her shoulder. The subject of this portrait was identified in 2004 as Anne Lovell, wife of Sir Francis Lovell (d. 1551), an esquire of the body to Henry VIII. David J. King, in his article "Who was Holbein's lady with a squirrel and a starling?", proposed that the starling in the painting encodes a pun on the Lovell family's seat at East Harling, Norfolk.[1] The starling and the squirrel were traditional elements in the Lovell iconography.[2] Holbein painted the portrait during his first visit to England, which lasted from summer 1526 to to summer 1528. King suggests it might have been done in winter, since the sitter wears a warm fur hat. During this first stay, Holbein worked largely for the circle of Thomas More and his connections: his drawing of More's ward Margaret Giggs shows her wearing the same type of hat. Holbein also painted portraits of Sir Henry Guildford and Mary, Lady Guildford, with similar decorative foliage in the background.[3] At this stage of his career, he often adapted such designs from pattern books; in his last decade he set his portrait subjects against plain backgrounds in a more iconic style. Art historian John Rowlands judges this painting "the most charming of the portraits from Holbein's first stay in England".[4]
References

  1. ↑ King, David J. (May 2004). "Who was Holbein's lady with a squirrel and a starling?", Apollo. 159 (507): 165–75, repeated on bnet.com, retrieved 1 March 2009.
  2. ↑ Wilson, Derek (2006). Hans Holbein: Portrait of an Unknown Man, London: Pimlico, (revised ed.). ISBN 9781844139187, p. 140.
  3. ↑ Foister, Susan (2006). Holbein in England, London: Tate. ISBN 1854376454, p. 30.
  4. ↑ Rowlands, John (1985). Holbein: The Paintings of Hans Holbein the Younger, Boston: David R. Godine. ISBN 0879235780, p. 72.
References
Source/Photographer http://nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/hans-holbein-the-younger-a-lady-with-a-squirrel-and-a-starling-anne-lovell/
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A Lady with a Squirrel and a Starling (Anne Lovell?) (c. 1526-1528). Oil on oak, 56 × 38.8 cm (22 × 15.3 in). National Gallery, London

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