Rarely seen Holbein sketches from the Tudor Court to go on display

A series of portraits of the Tudor court by Hans Holbein the Younger that are rarely seen in public will go on display later this year.
The drawings, which are rarely seen in order to preserve them, were created during personal sittings with the subject in preparation for portraits that Holbein was to go on to paint later on, sometimes very much later on. Quite how they ended up in the Royal Collection isn’t clear, but they were probably acquired by Henry VIII at the artist’s death.