Note 228 — Chapter XIX · “SERVANT OF THE KING’S MAJESTY”

There is another version of this portrait with the black staff in the left hand at Chatsworth, in which, Mr. S. Arthur Strong says, “the drawing of the features is masterly, and the detail is minute and searching without being petty; but here again the effect is flat, and we feel that Holbein himself would have better conveyed the sense of roundness and depth.... On the whole, there is a French rather than a German look about this picture, which suggests the possibility that it may have been painted at the time of the Field of the Cloth of Gold.”—Critical Studies and Fragments, p. 91, and Pl. ix. i.