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The Ambassadors, Hans Holbein the Younger (1533)
This painting by Hans Holbein the Younger, created in 1533, is a portrait of two ambassadors from the court of King Henry VIII of England. The painting is a double portrait of Jean de Dinteville and Georges de Selve, both French diplomats. The painting is
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The Ambassadors is a 1533 painting by Hans Holbein the Younger. Also known as Jean de Dinteville and Georges de Selve, after the two people it portrays, it was created in the Tudor period, in the same year Elizabeth I was born. Franny Moyle speculates that Elizabeth's mother, Anne Boleyn, then Queen of England, might have commissioned it as a gift for Jean de Dinteville, the French ambassador, portrayed on the left. De Selve was a Catholic bishop.