19--Froben's circle--Tremendous events
and issues of the time--Holbein's religious works--The Nativity and
Adoration at Freiburg--Hans Oberriedt--The Basel Passion in eight
panels--Passion Drawings--Christ in the tomb--Christ and Mary Magdalen
at the door of the sepulchre--Rathaus wall-paintings--Birth of
Holbein's eldest child--The Solothurn Madonna: its discovery and
rescue--Holbein's wife and her portraits--Suggested solutions of
some biographical enigmas--Title pages--Portraits of Erasmus--Journey
to France, probably to Lyons and Avignon--Publishers and pictures of
the so-called "Dance of Death"--Dorothea Offenburg as Venus and Lais
Corinthiaca--Triumph of the Protestant party--Holbein decides to
leave Basel for a time--The Meyer-Madonna of Darmstadt and Dresden,
and its portraits 45

CHAPTER III

CHANCES AND CHANGES (1526-1530)

First visit to England--Sir Thomas More: his home and portraits--The
Windsor drawings--Bishop Fisher--Archbishop Warham--Bishop
Stokesley--Sir Henry Guildford and his portrait--Nicholas Kratzer--Sir
Bryan Tuke--Holbein's return to Basel--Portrait-group of his wife and
two eldest children; two versions--Holbein's children, and families
claiming descent from him--Iconoclastic fury--Ruined arts--Death of
Meyer zum Hasen--Another Meyer commissions the last paintings for
Basel--Return to England--Description of the Steelyard--Portraits of
its members--George Gysze--Basel Council summons Holbein home--"The
Ambassadors" at the National Gallery; accepted identification--Coronation
of Queen Anne Boleyn--Lost paintings for the Guildhall of the Steelyard;
the Triumphs of Riches and Poverty--The great Morett portrait;
identifications--Holbein's industry and fertility--Designs for
metal-work and other drawings--Solomon and the Queen of Sheba 114

CHAPTER IV

PAINTER ROYAL (1536-1543)

Queen Jane Seymour--Death of Erasmus, and title-page portrait--The
Whitehall painting of Henry VIII.--Munich drawing of Henry VIII.--Birth
of an heir and the "Jane Seymour Cup"--Death of the Queen--Christina,
Duchess of Milan--Secret service for the King--Flying visit to Basel and
arrangements for a permanent return--Apprentices his son Philip at
Paris--Portrait of the Prince of Wales and the King's return gift--Anne
of Cleves--Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk--Catherine Howard--Lapse
of Holbein's Basel citiz