Pieter Pourbus, c 1523 – January 30, 1584, was a Flemish painter, draftsman, and cartographer. He was probably born in Gouda and settled in Bruges by the early 1540s. He became a master in the Bruges Guild of St Luke in 1543 and married Anna Blondeel, daughter of the painter Lanceloot Blondeel.
Pourbus painted portraits, religious works, altarpieces, allegorical subjects, and civic commissions. His work is associated with the Bruges tradition of detailed Netherlandish painting, adapted to mid-sixteenth-century portraiture and religious imagery. He also produced maps and topographical works, including important cartographic commissions for the region around Bruges.
Pourbus’s pupils and workshop connections included his son Frans Pourbus the Elder, who continued the family’s painting tradition. His works are held by the Groeningemuseum, Bruges; Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam; Museum Gouda; The Wallace Collection, London; Museum Mayer van den Bergh, Antwerp; and other public and private collections.
Portrait of Paulus de Nigro, 1518
Oil on panel, 13.5 x 10.6 in
Groeningemuseum, Bruges
Portrait of a Young Minister, mid-16th century
Oil on oak wood, 16.7 x 12.2 in
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
An Allegory of True Love, c 1547
Oil on panel, 52.2 x 80.9 in
The Wallace Collection, London
The Last Judgment, 1551
Oil on oak wood, 89.9 x 71.2 in
Groeningemuseum, Bruges
Portrait of Jacquemyne Buuck, 1551
Oil on panel, 38.3 x 28 in
Groeningemuseum, Bruges
The Annunciation, interior of left wing, 1552
Oil on panel, 46.1 x 44.1 in
Museum Gouda, The Netherlands
Portrait of an Unknown Woman, 1554
Oil on panel, 16.2 x 12.2 in
Museum Gouda, The Netherlands
The Lamentation of Christ, 1555–1560
Oil on canvas, 84.6 x 65.4 in
Schorr Collection, on long-term loan to the Tel Aviv Museum of Art
An Unknown Lady, Holding a Pomander on a Gold Chain, 1560
The Weiss Gallery, London
The Last Supper, 1562
Oil on panel, 57.7 x 90.7 in
Church of Our Lady, Bruges
Portrait of Francois Van der Straten, 1567
Oil on canvas, 26.8 x 25 in
Museum Mayer van den Bergh, Antwerp
Portrait of Jan Lopez Gallo and His Three Sons, 1568
Oil on panel, 38.5 x 20.4 in
Groeningemuseum, Bruges
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