Holbein and the Tudor Court
How did Holbein come to paint the iconic full-length portrait of King Henry VIII? Professor Suzannah Lipscomb further explores the painter's fascinating life and work with three of the world's foremost Holbein scholars.

How did Holbein come to paint the iconic full-length portrait of King Henry VIII? Professor Suzannah Lipscomb further explores the painter's fascinating life and work with three of the world's foremost Holbein scholars.
In the early 1530s, the painter Hans Holbein the Younger returns to London. His patronage by Anne Boleyn and the influential Thomas Cromwell leads to Holbein creating the full-length portrait of King Henry VIII that has dominated how we have visualised him ever since.
In this second of a two-part Not Just the Tudors special, Professor Suzannah Lipscomb further explores Holbein's fascinating life and work with three of the world's foremost scholars of the artist - Jeanne Nuechterlein, Franny Moyle and Susan Foister.