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Portrait of Georg Giese, oil painting, 1532, by Hans Holbein the Younger, 1497-1543, in the Gemaldegalerie, Berlin, Germany. The painting is part of a series of commissioned portraits of wealthy Hanseatic merchants based at the Steelyard in London, the main trading base of the Hanseatic League. The merchant is depicted surrounded by many symbolic objects explaining his trade and suggesting at his life and personality, including letters, carnations, rosemary, clock, family seal and basil. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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