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{{Short description|Painting by Hans Holbein the Younger}}
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'''''Portrait of Hermann Hillebrandt de Wedigh''''' is an [[Oil paint|oil]] and [[tempera]] on [[Panel painting|oak]] painting completed in 1533 by [[Hans Holbein the Younger]], now in the [[Gemäldegalerie, Berlin]]. It depicts a member of the Wedigh family of [[Cologne]] thought to be a [[merchant]] of the [[Stalhof|Steelyard]] in [[London]].<ref name="GGB" />{{sfn|Strong|1980|p=58}}
[[File:Hans Holbein d.J. - Porträt eines Mitgliedes der Familie Wedigh.jpg|thumb|right|Hermann von Wedigh III (died 1560), 1532, by Hans Holbein the Younger, [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]], New York]]
[[File:Hans Holbein - Hermann von Wedigh III (died 1560), Detail.png|thumb|right|Hermann von Wedigh III (died 1560), Detail]]
==Description==
This small half-length has been described as "one of the finest and most sympathetic portraits ever painted by Holbein."{{sfn|Chamberlain|1913|p=17}} The subject stands directly facing the viewer, the left hand holding his [[Buff (colour)|buff-coloured]] gloves, and the right half hidden by the heavy dark-brown cloak. The manner in which the right hand is hidden inside a cloak is repeated in [[:File:Holbein - henryhoward01.jpg|''The poet Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey'']] ({{Circa|1542}}).{{sfn|Foister|2007|p=66}} This [[cloak]] the folds of which are finely arranged and painted, has a black velvet collar and velvet at the wrists. The white shirt, partly open and showing the bare chest beneath, is tied in the front by long strings passed through a white [[button]], and the [[Blackwork|embroidered]] collar is almost hidden by his beard. A flat black [[cap]] is on his head, of the type worn by all the [[Steelyard#Gallery|Steelyard merchants]] in Holbein's portraits. The hair, beard, and [[moustache]] are light brown, "the separate hairs being indicated with almost microscopic care."{{sfn|Chamberlain|1913|p=17}} The eyes are blue, the right one larger than the left, the eyebrow raised. The right side of the face shows "great charm and much sweetness of expression" and the left appears "sadder and more forbidding".{{sfn|Foister|2007|p=66}}{{sfn|Campbell|1990|pp=30–34}}
On the plain blue background there is a [[Latin]] inscription at head-height, with the year and the sitter's age in gold letters: ''ANNO . 1533. // ÆTATIS SVÆ . 39''. The [[Seal (emblem)|signet ring]] on his index finger is enamelled in red, white, black and green, and in the circle around the [[coat of arms]] there are some letters now undecipherable.{{sfn|Chamberlain|1913|p=17}} Unlike Holbein's other paintings of [[Steelyard#Gallery|Steelyard merchants]], this portrait and that of [[:File:Hans Holbein the Younger - Derich Born (1510?-49) - Google Art Project.jpg|''Derich Born'']] (1533), have no letter/s or [[merchant's mark]] to identify the sitter.
A related portrait, [[:File:Hans Holbein d.J. - Porträt eines Mitgliedes der Familie Wedigh.jpg|''Hermann von Wedigh III (died 1560)'']] (1532), now at the [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]] in New York also has a raised eyebrow over the right eye which is larger than the left and the [[:File:Hans Holbein - Hermann von Wedigh III (died 1560), Detail.png|same coat of arms]] on a signet ring. "Perhaps to engage the viewer in close study of the likenesses of the two men, or even to stress a common family trait, the artist has exaggerated the size of the right eye in each."{{sfn|Ainsworth|Waterman|Husband|Thomas|2013|pp=136–137}}
The two men have been identified as a members of the Wedigh family of Cologne by the [[:File:Hans Holbein - Hermann von Wedigh III (died 1560), Detail.png|coat of arms on their signet ring]]: ''a chevron surrounded by three willow leaves''.{{sfn|Ainsworth|Waterman|Husband|Thomas|2013|pp=133–137}} [[Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor|Maximilian I]] granted this coat of arms to a "Rheinlander" named Heinrich von Wedigh (1440–1513) on 18 July 1503.{{sfn|Ainsworth|Waterman|Husband|Thomas|2013|p=301, n. 12}} Several members of this [[Patrician (post-Roman Europe)|patrician]] family were merchants at the [[Steelyard]] in London from 1480.{{sfn|Buck|Sander|Suchtelen|Buvelot|2003|p=80}}
==Identification==
The subject of this painting may be an undocumented brother or cousin of [[:File:Hans Holbein d.J. - Porträt eines Mitgliedes der Familie Wedigh.jpg|Hermann III von Wedigh]]. He is traditionally called "Hermann Hillebrandt Wedigh," but only his family name and age can be established. Hermann III von Wedigh's father, Hermann II, had, so far as we know, no other sons and no brothers, and although his sister Clara married first Philip Aberlinck and then Johannes Hillebrandt, no children are recorded from either marriage. The identification of this member of the family as "Hermann Hillebrandt Wedigh" is by no means certain.{{sfn|Holman|1979|p=146}}
==Provenance==
The [[Schönborn family|Counts von Schönborn]], [[Vienna]], by 1746 until 1865; the banker, [[Barthold Suermondt]], [[Aachen]], until 1874.{{sfn|Foister|2007|p=66}}{{sfn|Rowlands|1985|p=138}}
==See also==
* [[List of paintings by Hans Holbein the Younger]]
==References==
{{Reflist}}
===Sources===
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*{{cite book |last1=Ainsworth |first1=Maryan W. |last2=Waterman |first2=Joshua P. |last3=Husband |first3=Timothy |last4=Thomas |first4=Karen E. |last5=Mahon |first5=Dorothy |title=German Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1350-1600 |date=2013 |publisher=[[Metropolitan Museum of Art]] |location=New York |isbn=9781588394873 |pages=133-137, 301-302 |url=https://www.google.com.au/books/edition/_/MKkSBtJNBUwC?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA133}}
*{{cite book |last1=Buck |first1=Stephanie |last2=Sander |first2=Jochen |last3=Suchtelen |first3=Ariane van |last4=Buvelot |first4=Quentin |last5=Ploeg |first5=Peter van der |title=Hans Holbein the Younger, 1497/98-1543: Portraitist of the Renaissance. Catalogue for the exhibition, Hans Holbein 1497/98-1543, 16 August–16 November 2003. Essays, Stephanie Buck, Jochen Sander; catalogue, Ariane van Suchtelen, Quentin Buvelot, Peter van der Ploeg; with appendices by Bieke van der Mark and Epco Runia |date=2003 |publisher=Royal Cabinet of Paintings Mauritshuis |location=The Hague |isbn=904008906X |pages=80-83}}
*{{cite book |last1=Campbell |first1=Lorne |author-link1=Lorne Campbell (art historian) |title=Renaissance Portraits: European Portrait-Painting in the 14th 15th and 16th Centuries |date=1990 |publisher=[[Yale University Press]] |location=New Haven |isbn=9780300046755 |pages=30-34}}
*{{cite book |last1=Chamberlain |first1=Arthur Bensley |title=Hans Holbein the Younger |date=1913 |publisher=George Allen & Company |location=London |volume=2 |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015017084073&view=2up&seq=46 |pages=16–17 |oclc=519969}}
*{{cite book |last1=Foister |first1=Susan |title=Holbein in England |date=2007 |publisher=[[Tate Publishing Ltd|Tate Publishing]] |location=London |pages=66–67 |isbn=9781854376459}}
*{{cite journal |last1=Holman |first1=Thomas S. |title=Holbein's Portraits of the Steelyard Merchants: An Investigation |journal=Metropolitan Museum Journal |date=1979 |volume=14 |pages=139–158 |doi=10.2307/1512741 |jstor=1512741 |s2cid=192962109 |url=https://www.metmuseum.org/art/metpu...nts_the_metropolitan_museum_journal_v_14_1979 |access-date=30 March 2024}}
*{{cite book |last1=Rowlands |first1=John |title=Holbein: The Paintings of Hans Holbein the Younger |date=1985 |publisher=[[Phaidon Press|Phaidon]] |location=Oxford |pages=138–139 |isbn=9780714823584 |edition=Complete}}
*{{cite book |last1=Strong |first1=Roy |author-link1=Roy Strong |editor1-last=Piper |editor1-first=David |title=Holbein: The Complete Paintings |date=1980 |publisher=Granada |location=London |page=58 |isbn=9780246112903}}
{{refend}}
==External links==
{{Commons category|Kaufmann Wedigh (Holbein der Jüngere)|Portrait of Hermann Hillebrandt de Wedigh}}
*[https://id.smb.museum/object/863091/hermann-hillebrandt-de-wedigh ''Portrait of Hermann Hillebrandt de Wedigh''] at the [[Gemäldegalerie, Berlin]]
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'''''Portrait of Hermann Hillebrandt de Wedigh''''' is an [[Oil paint|oil]] and [[tempera]] on [[Panel painting|oak]] painting completed in 1533 by [[Hans Holbein the Younger]], now in the [[Gemäldegalerie, Berlin]]. It depicts a member of the Wedigh family of [[Cologne]] thought to be a [[merchant]] of the [[Stalhof|Steelyard]] in [[London]].<ref name="GGB" />{{sfn|Strong|1980|p=58}}
[[File:Hans Holbein d.J. - Porträt eines Mitgliedes der Familie Wedigh.jpg|thumb|right|Hermann von Wedigh III (died 1560), 1532, by Hans Holbein the Younger, [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]], New York]]
[[File:Hans Holbein - Hermann von Wedigh III (died 1560), Detail.png|thumb|right|Hermann von Wedigh III (died 1560), Detail]]
==Description==
This small half-length has been described as "one of the finest and most sympathetic portraits ever painted by Holbein."{{sfn|Chamberlain|1913|p=17}} The subject stands directly facing the viewer, the left hand holding his [[Buff (colour)|buff-coloured]] gloves, and the right half hidden by the heavy dark-brown cloak. The manner in which the right hand is hidden inside a cloak is repeated in [[:File:Holbein - henryhoward01.jpg|''The poet Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey'']] ({{Circa|1542}}).{{sfn|Foister|2007|p=66}} This [[cloak]] the folds of which are finely arranged and painted, has a black velvet collar and velvet at the wrists. The white shirt, partly open and showing the bare chest beneath, is tied in the front by long strings passed through a white [[button]], and the [[Blackwork|embroidered]] collar is almost hidden by his beard. A flat black [[cap]] is on his head, of the type worn by all the [[Steelyard#Gallery|Steelyard merchants]] in Holbein's portraits. The hair, beard, and [[moustache]] are light brown, "the separate hairs being indicated with almost microscopic care."{{sfn|Chamberlain|1913|p=17}} The eyes are blue, the right one larger than the left, the eyebrow raised. The right side of the face shows "great charm and much sweetness of expression" and the left appears "sadder and more forbidding".{{sfn|Foister|2007|p=66}}{{sfn|Campbell|1990|pp=30–34}}
On the plain blue background there is a [[Latin]] inscription at head-height, with the year and the sitter's age in gold letters: ''ANNO . 1533. // ÆTATIS SVÆ . 39''. The [[Seal (emblem)|signet ring]] on his index finger is enamelled in red, white, black and green, and in the circle around the [[coat of arms]] there are some letters now undecipherable.{{sfn|Chamberlain|1913|p=17}} Unlike Holbein's other paintings of [[Steelyard#Gallery|Steelyard merchants]], this portrait and that of [[:File:Hans Holbein the Younger - Derich Born (1510?-49) - Google Art Project.jpg|''Derich Born'']] (1533), have no letter/s or [[merchant's mark]] to identify the sitter.
A related portrait, [[:File:Hans Holbein d.J. - Porträt eines Mitgliedes der Familie Wedigh.jpg|''Hermann von Wedigh III (died 1560)'']] (1532), now at the [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]] in New York also has a raised eyebrow over the right eye which is larger than the left and the [[:File:Hans Holbein - Hermann von Wedigh III (died 1560), Detail.png|same coat of arms]] on a signet ring. "Perhaps to engage the viewer in close study of the likenesses of the two men, or even to stress a common family trait, the artist has exaggerated the size of the right eye in each."{{sfn|Ainsworth|Waterman|Husband|Thomas|2013|pp=136–137}}
The two men have been identified as a members of the Wedigh family of Cologne by the [[:File:Hans Holbein - Hermann von Wedigh III (died 1560), Detail.png|coat of arms on their signet ring]]: ''a chevron surrounded by three willow leaves''.{{sfn|Ainsworth|Waterman|Husband|Thomas|2013|pp=133–137}} [[Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor|Maximilian I]] granted this coat of arms to a "Rheinlander" named Heinrich von Wedigh (1440–1513) on 18 July 1503.{{sfn|Ainsworth|Waterman|Husband|Thomas|2013|p=301, n. 12}} Several members of this [[Patrician (post-Roman Europe)|patrician]] family were merchants at the [[Steelyard]] in London from 1480.{{sfn|Buck|Sander|Suchtelen|Buvelot|2003|p=80}}
==Identification==
The subject of this painting may be an undocumented brother or cousin of [[:File:Hans Holbein d.J. - Porträt eines Mitgliedes der Familie Wedigh.jpg|Hermann III von Wedigh]]. He is traditionally called "Hermann Hillebrandt Wedigh," but only his family name and age can be established. Hermann III von Wedigh's father, Hermann II, had, so far as we know, no other sons and no brothers, and although his sister Clara married first Philip Aberlinck and then Johannes Hillebrandt, no children are recorded from either marriage. The identification of this member of the family as "Hermann Hillebrandt Wedigh" is by no means certain.{{sfn|Holman|1979|p=146}}
==Provenance==
The [[Schönborn family|Counts von Schönborn]], [[Vienna]], by 1746 until 1865; the banker, [[Barthold Suermondt]], [[Aachen]], until 1874.{{sfn|Foister|2007|p=66}}{{sfn|Rowlands|1985|p=138}}
==See also==
* [[List of paintings by Hans Holbein the Younger]]
==References==
{{Reflist}}
===Sources===
{{refbegin}}
*{{cite book |last1=Ainsworth |first1=Maryan W. |last2=Waterman |first2=Joshua P. |last3=Husband |first3=Timothy |last4=Thomas |first4=Karen E. |last5=Mahon |first5=Dorothy |title=German Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1350-1600 |date=2013 |publisher=[[Metropolitan Museum of Art]] |location=New York |isbn=9781588394873 |pages=133-137, 301-302 |url=https://www.google.com.au/books/edition/_/MKkSBtJNBUwC?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA133}}
*{{cite book |last1=Buck |first1=Stephanie |last2=Sander |first2=Jochen |last3=Suchtelen |first3=Ariane van |last4=Buvelot |first4=Quentin |last5=Ploeg |first5=Peter van der |title=Hans Holbein the Younger, 1497/98-1543: Portraitist of the Renaissance. Catalogue for the exhibition, Hans Holbein 1497/98-1543, 16 August–16 November 2003. Essays, Stephanie Buck, Jochen Sander; catalogue, Ariane van Suchtelen, Quentin Buvelot, Peter van der Ploeg; with appendices by Bieke van der Mark and Epco Runia |date=2003 |publisher=Royal Cabinet of Paintings Mauritshuis |location=The Hague |isbn=904008906X |pages=80-83}}
*{{cite book |last1=Campbell |first1=Lorne |author-link1=Lorne Campbell (art historian) |title=Renaissance Portraits: European Portrait-Painting in the 14th 15th and 16th Centuries |date=1990 |publisher=[[Yale University Press]] |location=New Haven |isbn=9780300046755 |pages=30-34}}
*{{cite book |last1=Chamberlain |first1=Arthur Bensley |title=Hans Holbein the Younger |date=1913 |publisher=George Allen & Company |location=London |volume=2 |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015017084073&view=2up&seq=46 |pages=16–17 |oclc=519969}}
*{{cite book |last1=Foister |first1=Susan |title=Holbein in England |date=2007 |publisher=[[Tate Publishing Ltd|Tate Publishing]] |location=London |pages=66–67 |isbn=9781854376459}}
*{{cite journal |last1=Holman |first1=Thomas S. |title=Holbein's Portraits of the Steelyard Merchants: An Investigation |journal=Metropolitan Museum Journal |date=1979 |volume=14 |pages=139–158 |doi=10.2307/1512741 |jstor=1512741 |s2cid=192962109 |url=https://www.metmuseum.org/art/metpu...nts_the_metropolitan_museum_journal_v_14_1979 |access-date=30 March 2024}}
*{{cite book |last1=Rowlands |first1=John |title=Holbein: The Paintings of Hans Holbein the Younger |date=1985 |publisher=[[Phaidon Press|Phaidon]] |location=Oxford |pages=138–139 |isbn=9780714823584 |edition=Complete}}
*{{cite book |last1=Strong |first1=Roy |author-link1=Roy Strong |editor1-last=Piper |editor1-first=David |title=Holbein: The Complete Paintings |date=1980 |publisher=Granada |location=London |page=58 |isbn=9780246112903}}
{{refend}}
==External links==
{{Commons category|Kaufmann Wedigh (Holbein der Jüngere)|Portrait of Hermann Hillebrandt de Wedigh}}
*[https://id.smb.museum/object/863091/hermann-hillebrandt-de-wedigh ''Portrait of Hermann Hillebrandt de Wedigh''] at the [[Gemäldegalerie, Berlin]]
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