Juan de Flandes

(b c. 1465; d ?Palencia, before 21 Oct 1519). South Netherlandish painter, active in Spain. Nothing is known of his life or work before he went to Spain, where he is first mentioned in a document of 1496 as 'Juan de Flandes', a painter in the service of Queen Isabella of Castile. Treasury accounts confirm that he held this position until the Queen's death in 1504. On arriving in Spain, he must have lived in Burgos, where he certainly met MICHEL SITTOW, another painter in the Queen's service, who had been at the Castilian court since 1492.

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Juan de Flandes ('John of Flanders') was a painter who was active in Spain from 1496 to 1519. Born around 1460 in Flanders (modern Belgium), Juan de Flandes became an artist at the court of Isabella of Castile in Spain painting accomplished portraits of her and members of her family in the Renaissance mode.

After Isabella's death in 1504 he turned to ecclesiastical work for Spanish churches. The overwhelming majority of his work held in collections outside Spain comes from this later period in which he concentrated on religious themes.

Paintings

Portrait of a Girl

Resurrection of Lazarus

External links

Juan de Flandes at Artcyclopedia

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