3247752 Portrait of a Hanseatic Merchant, 1538 (oil on panel) by Holbein the Younger, Hans (1497/8-1543); 49.6x39 cm; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, USA; (add.info.: The merchants of the Hanseatic League, a powerful German trading organization established their English headquarters in the London Steelyard. Holbein was commissioned to decorate their meeting hall and to produce individual portraits of the guild members. These all adopt the same format, with the sitter represented frontally against an unadorned background. An inscription records the age of the sitter in this painting (thirty-three) but no other information is known about him.); German, out of copyright.