enship--Irregularities--Provision for wife
and children--Residence in London--Execution of Queen Catherine
Howard--Marriage of Catherine Parr--Dr. Chamber--Unfinished work
for the Barber-Surgeons' Hall--Death of Holbein--His will--Place of
burial--Holbein's genius: its true character and greatness 156

CATALOGUE OF PRINCIPAL EXISTING WORKS 188

REFERENCES 189

INDEX 199

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

1. HOLBEIN _Frontispiece_
Self Portrait. From a photograph in the Rischgitz Collection.

2. "PROSY" AND "HANS" HOLBEIN 16
Drawn by their father, Hans Holbein the elder. Silver-point.
(Berlin Cabinet.)

3. SCHOOLMASTER'S SIGNBOARD 26
Oils. (Basel Museum.)

4. JACOB MEYER (ZUM HASEN) 31
Oils. (Basel Museum.) From a photograph in the Rischgitz Collection.

5. DOROTHEA MEYER (nee KANNEGIESSER) 31
Oils. (Basel Museum.) From a photograph in the Rischgitz Collection.

6. BONIFACIUS AMERBACH 46
Oils. (Basel Museum.)

7. FIGHT OF LANDSKNECHTE 58
Washed drawing. (Basel Museum.) From a Photograph in the
Rischgitz Collection.

8. THE NATIVITY 72
Oils. (University Chapel, Freiburg Cathedral.)
From a photograph by G. Roebke, Freiburg.

9. THE PASSION 74
I. GETHSEMANE. II. THE KISS OF JUDAS.
III. BEFORE PONTIUS PILATE. IV. THE SCOURGING.
V. THE MOCKING. VI. THE WAY TO CALVARY.
VII. "IT IS FINISHED." VIII. THE ENTOMBMENT.
Eight-panelled Altar-piece. (Basel Museum.)

10. CHRIST IN THE GRAVE 78
Oils. (Basel Museum.)

11. THE RISEN CHRIST 82
Oils. (Hampton Court Gallery.)

12. THE SOLOTHURN, OR ZETTER'SCHE, MADONNA 86
Oils. (Solothurn Museum.) From a photograph by
Braun, Clement, and Cie., Paris.

13. UNNAMED PORTRAI