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HOLBEIN, AMBROSIUS, born in Augsburg about 1494 (?), died after 1518. German school; history painter, son and pupil of Hans Holbein the elder, whom he probably assisted in his works, and with his brother, Hans the younger, went to Basle before or in 1515, to which year their first activity there can be traced, and where both were engaged chiefly in designing title-pages. Ambrosius was admitted into the guild "Zum Himmel" in 1517, and acquired the citizenship in 1518, but all trace of him is lost in 1519. Works: Christ as Mediator, Two Bust-portraits of Boys, Two Skulls in Grated Window, Portrait of Jörg Schweiger (?), Basle Museum; Portrait of Young Lady, Ambras Collection, Vienna; do. of Young Man (1518), Hermitage, St. Petersburg.—Allgem. d. Biogr., xii. 724; Woltmann, Holbein u. s. Zeit, i. 101, 110, 133, 202-212; ii. 31, 45, 48, 79, 92, 205; W. & W., ii. 461; Repertorium f. K., i. 251; Zahn's Jahrbücher, v. 197.

HOLBEIN, EDUARD, born in Berlin in 1807, died there, Feb. 19, 1875. History and genre painter, pupil of Karl Begas, with whose works his first picture in 1836 was ranked. He took his great namesake, Hans Holbein the younger, for his model; became professor at Berlin Academy, where his most famous pupil was Gustav Richter. Works: Aged Pilgrim dying in Sight of Jerusalem (1836); Madonna (1838); Twelve Patriarchs, Royal Chapel, Berlin.—Rosenberg, Berl. Malersch., 69.

HOLBEIN (Holbain), HANS, the elder, born in Augsburg about 1460, died there in 1524. German school; history painter, influenced by Martin Schongauer, if not his pupil at Colmar, and the chief representative of realistic tendency in the school of Suabia; in his later works under the influence of Italian renaissance. Works: Four Altar-panels (1493), Augsburg Cathedral; Madonna Enthroned, do. (1499), Germanic Museum, Nuremberg; Death of the Virgin (1490), Basle Museum; Basilica, S. M. Maggiore (1499), Coronation of the Virgin and Scenes from Passion (1500), Transfiguration (1502), Basilica of St. Paul (1504), four Altar-panels (1512), Augsburg Gallery; Seven Scenes from Passion (1501), Städel Gallery, Frankfort; six others, Museum, ib.; Last Supper, St. Leonard's, ib.; twelve scenes from Passion (1502?), Donaueschingen Gallery; sixteen panels with Episodes in Life of Mary and Scenes from Passion (1502), Altar of St. Sebastian (1516, masterpiece), Old Pinakothek, Munich; Visitation of the Virgin, National Museum, ib.; Two Altarwings with Saints, Prague Gallery; Christ bearing the Cross (1515), Carlsruhe Gallery; Entombment (attributed to Sigismund H.), Portrait of Young Man (1515, attributed to Hans the younger), Darmstadt Museum; two portraits (1512), Hampton Court Gallery. His brother, Sigismund, who appears in the rate-books of Augsburg, first in 1504, and who moved in 1519 to Berne, where he died in 1540, probably worked conjointly with him on several works.—Allgem. d. Biogr., xii. 713; Cundall, H. Holbein; Förster, ii. 213; Kugler (Crowe), i. 140; Nagler, Mon., iii. 157; Woltmann, Holbein und sein Zeit, i. 41-100; ii. 7, 61; W. & W., ii. 116, 456; Graph. K., i. 110.

HOLBEIN, HANS, the younger, born in Augsburg in 1497, died in London between Oct. 7 and Nov. 29, 1543. German school; history and portrait painter, son and pupil of Hans Holbein the elder. After completing his apprenticeship he went to Basle with his brother, Ambrose, in 1515, served as journeyman under Herbster, Koch,