5667207 Derick Berck of Cologne, 1536 (oil on canvas, transferred from wood) by Holbein the Younger, Hans (1497/8-1543); 53.3 x 42.5 cm; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 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. This sitter is identified by the letter which is addressed "To the honorable and pious Derick Berck, London, at the Steelyard [. . .]. The motto from Virgil\'s Aeneid encourages perseverance).