Philip Hobby Knight, after Holbein
Not on view
Son to the miniature painter John Smart (1742–1811), John Smart Jr. here portrays a courtier who served Henry VIII as ambassador to the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V. The image derives from a drawing made by Han Holbein the Younger, one of a series that record figures associated with the English court between 1532 and 1543. Smart did not work from the original, however, but copied a stipple engraving by Francesco Bartolozzi published in 1796, part of a series printed on pink paper titled "Imitations of Original Drawings by Holbein, in the Collection of His Majesty, for the Portraits of Illustrious Persons in the Court of Henry VIII" where the portrait of Philip Hoby is plate 39. Smart's drawing demonstrates not only skilled draftsmanship but rising antiquarian interest in England and renew appreciation for Holbein's records of the Tudor period.
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