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Shown from the waist up, a pale-skinned, round-cheeked young boy wears a brocade red and gold garment and hat in this vertical portrait painting. The boy’s body is angled to our left, but he turns his face toward us as he looks slightly down with gray eyes. He has a square face with a high forehead, faint brows, a small, rounded nose, bow-shaped pink lips, and a pointed chin. A fringe of pale blond hair lines the top of his head under a gold cap that ties under his chin. A white feather drops off the edge of a red disk around the top of the hat. His brilliant red garment is lined with gold…

Edward VI as a Child

Hans Holbein the Younger (German, 1497/1498 - 1543)

probably 1538 · oil on panel

National Gallery of Art · Andrew W. Mellon Collection

Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0)

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