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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. It belongs to Holbein's mature career, and a preparatory drawing of the painting (with the inscription "Southwell Knight") exists in the Royal Collections of the Windsor Castle. The Louvre houses  a copy brought to Paris during the Napoleonic invasions of Europe.
Hans Holbein the Younger Florence Uffizi Thomas Howard, Duke of Arundel Medici Napoleonic Louvre Windsor Castle Richard Southwell Cosimo II de' Medici