Beatrice Fortescue

Beatrice Fortescue is a British author remembered for Holbein, a short art book first published in 1904 as part of Methuen’s Little Books on Art series. The book focuses on the life and work of Hans Holbein the Younger and was written for a broad readership rather than a specialist academic audience.

Today, Holbein remains the work most clearly associated with her. It has been preserved and reissued through sources such as Project Gutenberg and later print and ebook editions, which suggests a lasting interest in her approachable introduction to Renaissance art.

Very little biographical information about Fortescue is easy to confirm from reliable public sources, so modern readers usually know her through this one surviving book rather than through a detailed personal record.