It was also in England that Holbein began to paint portrait miniatures. He seems to have learned the technique from an artist called Lucas Hornebout, a Flemish painter in the service of Henry VIII. Holbein's miniatures do not differ essentially from his large-scale paintings; his famous miniature of Mrs Pemberton has all the precision of line and clarity of structure of larger portraits. Holbein's miniatures were to be praised by the most famous English miniaturist, Nicholas Hilliard, who later in the century wrote, `Holbean's maner of limning I have ever imitated and howld it for the best'. Hilliard's miniatures, however, transform the miniature from the reduction of a large-scale painting into a jewel-like and daintily patterned objet d'art.

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	Portrait Medallion of Erasmus of Rotterdam 1532 Tempera on wood, diameter 14 cm Öffentliche Kunstsammlung, Basel	977*1000 True Color 143 Kb
	Portrait of a Man in a Red Cap 1532-35 Oil and gold on parchment attached to wood, diameter 10 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York	700*705 True Color 163 Kb
	Solomon and the Queen of Sheba 1534-35 Vellum, 229 x 183 mm Royal Library, Windsor	807*1010 True Color 158 Kb
	Courtier of Henry VIII and his Wife 1534 Oil on linden panel, diameter 12 cm (each) Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna	1454*700 True Color 206 Kb
	Portrait of Philipp Melanchthon c. 1535 Oak, diameter 9 cm Niedersächsisches Landesmuseum, Hannover	1080*610 True Color 110 Kb
	Portrait of Jane Pemberton c. 1540 Vellum mounted on playing card, diameter 5,3 cm Victoria and Albert Museum, London	493*527 True Color 27 Kb
	Portrait of an Unknown Lady c. 1541 Vellum mounted on playing card, diameter 5,1 cm Royal Collection, Windsor	500*498 True Color 33 Kb
	Henry Brandon 1541 Vellum mounted on playing card, diameter 5,7 cm Royal Collection, Windsor	444*442 True Color 24 Kb
	Charles Brandon 1541 Vellum mounted on playing card, diameter 5,7 cm Royal Collection, Windsor	446*442 True Color 25 Kb