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The Portrait of Sir Richard Southwell is a painting by the German Renaissance master Hans Holbein the Younger executed around 1536-1537. It is housed in the Uffizi Florence.The painting was required by Grand Duke Cosimo II de’ Medici in 1620 to Thomas Howard Duke of Arundel to fill a gap in the family collections. It arrived in Florence in April 1621 when Cosimo had already died.
