But when, later in the evening, this lady was described by confidential chat at the far end of the salon as that handsome young Mrs. Algernon Fenwick who was only just married, and whose husband was playing chess in the smoking-room, and what a pity it was they were not going to stop over Monday, she thus described, accurately enough, was rather rejoicing that that handsome Mr. Fenwick, who looked like a holbein portrait, was being kept quiet for half an hour, because she wanted to get a chance for a little chat with that dreadful noisy Prussian Von, who made all the glasses ring at table when he shouted so.
"Somehow Good"
William de Morgan
The book was imitated at Nuremberg and elsewhere, and the illustrators of the Venetian Malermi Bible of 1490, and even Hans holbein himself, did not disdain to take ideas from it.
"Fine Books"
Alfred W. Pollard
The eighty-three years stretching from 1461 to 1543-between the probable year of the elder Hans holbein's birth and that in which the younger, the great holbein, died-constitute one of those periods which rightly deserve the much-abused name of an Epoch.
"Holbein"
Beatrice Fortescue