Portrait Miniature of Margaret Roper [SEP] collection
Portrait Miniature of Margaret Roper
Portrait Miniature of Margaret Roper is a painting by the German artist and printmaker Hans Holbein the Younger created between 1535–36, and today held in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Margaret Roper (1505–44) was the eldest child of Sir Thomas More and wife of the English biographer William Roper. It is the second and less well known of two portraits of Roper painted by Holbein. The first, "Portrait of an English Woman", is generally believed to show Roper but may depict
1536 in art
The year 1536 in art involved some significant events and new works.
Events.
- Piazza di Venezia opened in Rome.
- Hans Holbein the Younger is employed as King's Painter to Henry VIII of England by this date.
Works.
- Bramantino – "The Flight into Egypt" (Madonna del Sasso, Switzerland)
- Hans Holbein (approximate date)
- "Portrait Miniature of Margaret Roper" (approximate date)
- Giulio Romano – "Tarquin and Lucretia