Hans Holbein the Younger, Volume 2 (of 2)

book in the Vienna portrait,—“Veritas odium parit” (“Truth brings

hatred”), is not the present motto of the Trelawney family. On the side of the same book, painted on the edges of the leaves, are the letters “H E R. W I D.,” and more recent research has established the fact that the two men were members of the Wedigh family. Members of this patrician family of Cologne had been conne...