[Portrait de Nicolas Kratzer Astronome.]

Portrait of Nicolas Kratzer (1487?- 1550), a German astronomer, horologist and mathematician who after being introduced to court life by Thomas More, became court astronomer to Henry VIII. After the 1528 portrait by Kratzer's friend Holbein, now in the Louvre. A copy of this portrait hangs in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
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