Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Georg Giese

Georg Giese

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Original – Georg Giese, a German merchant from Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland) and a member of the Hanseatic League. Giese also worked at the Steelyard in London, where he was portrayed by Hans Holbein in 1532.

Reason

Extremely high quality scan (26,292×30,000) of a portrait painting about a notable merchant, and thus high EV.

Articles in which this image appears

Georg Giese (most EV), Hans Holbein the Younger, Google Art Project, +4 others

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Business

Creator

Hans Holbein the Younger

• Support as nominator – Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 21:07, 11 December 2015 (UTC)
• Support – Iconic portrait of a historical type; EV for Hanseatic League, Steelyard, Holbein, Danzig. Sca (talk) 15:45, 12 December 2015 (UTC)
• Support – Yann (talk) 16:55, 12 December 2015 (UTC)
• Support — Chris Woodrich (talk) 03:55, 13 December 2015 (UTC)
• Support – ssт✈^(discuss) 07:42, 13 December 2015 (UTC)
• Support – BRPever (talk) 17:00, 14 December 2015 (UTC)
• Support – Jobas (talk) 17:08, 14 December 2015 (UTC)
• Support --Tremonist (talk) 14:19, 15 December 2015 (UTC)
• Support - Great piece, and numismatically historical as well...

Georg Giese depicted from the same artwork, on a 1923 100,000 papiermark

.--Godot13 (talk) 08:55, 18 December 2015 (UTC)

• Support --Atsme^📞📧 13:08, 20 December 2015 (UTC)

Promoted File:Hans Holbein der Jüngere - Der Kaufmann Georg Gisze - Google Art Project.jpg --Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 20:49, 26 December 2015 (UTC)