David Starkey

David Starkey on the inventor of the portrait

The word ‘portrait’ was unknown in the early 16th century. It entered the language largely thanks to Holbein

‘William Reskimer’, c.1536–9, and ‘Anne Boleyn’, 1532–6, by Hans Holbein the Younger. Royal Collection Trust / © His Majesty King Charles III 2023

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