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Jean Fouquet
Jean Fouquet, born c 1420 and died between 1478 and 1481, was a French painter and manuscript illuminator associated with Tours. Little is known about his training. He traveled to Italy early in his career and painted a now-lost portrait of Pope Eugenius IV in Rome.
Fouquet worked for members of the French royal court, including Charles VII and the royal treasurer Étienne Chevalier. He combined French and Netherlandish traditions with forms encountered in Italy, working in panel painting, portraiture, painted enamel, and manuscript illumination. His major commissions included the Melun Diptych, the Étienne Chevalier Hours, and the Grandes Chroniques de France.
Fouquet spent his later career in Tours and was appointed painter to Louis XI. Surviving works are held by the Louvre Museum, the Bibliothèque nationale de France, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Gemäldegalerie in Berlin, and the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp.
Michel Sittow
Michel Sittow, c 1469–December 1525, was an Estonian painter born in Reval, now Tallinn, and associated with Early Netherlandish art. He probably received his earliest training from his father, the painter and sculptor Clawes van der Sittow, before moving to Bruges in 1484; an apprenticeship with Hans Memling is plausible but undocumented.
By 1492 Sittow served Queen Isabella of Castile as a court painter and portraitist and collaborated with Juan de Flandes on small devotional panels for her collection. After Isabella’s death, his work took him among several European courts, including those of Philip the Fair, Margaret of Austria, Charles V, and Christian II of Denmark. He returned to Reval in 1506, joined the local artists’ guild in 1507, and resumed work there after further court service by 1518.
Paintings by or attributed to Sittow are held by the National Gallery of Art, the Mauritshuis, the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Statens Museum for Kunst, the Gemäldegalerie, and the Art Museum of Estonia’s Niguliste Museum. He remained active in Reval until his death in late December 1525.
Jan Sanders van Hemessen
Jan Sanders van Hemessen, c 1500–c 1566, was a Flemish painter born in Hemiksem near Antwerp. He was apprenticed to Hendrick van Cleve I in Antwerp in 1519–1520 and became a master in the city’s Guild of Saint Luke in 1524.
Van Hemessen maintained a successful Antwerp workshop and served as dean of the Guild of Saint Luke in 1548. He painted religious subjects, portraits, and moralizing scenes drawn from contemporary life, and he trained his daughter Catharina van Hemessen, who became a successful portrait painter.
His last dated paintings are from the 1550s, and the circumstances and place of his death remain uncertain. His works are held by institutions including the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Museo del Prado, State Hermitage Museum, Art Institute of Chicago, and Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium.
Lucas van Leyden
Lucas van Leyden, c 1494 – August 8, 1533, was a Netherlandish painter and printmaker born and active in Leiden. He was the son of the painter Huygh Jacobsz and trained in Leiden.
Van Leyden produced engravings from an early age and also painted portraits, religious subjects, and genre scenes. He met Albrecht Dürer in Antwerp in 1521 and was a leading Netherlandish artist of his generation.
Van Leyden died in Leiden in 1533. His works are held by institutions including the National Gallery, London; Museum De Lakenhal, Leiden; the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; and the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC.
Jacopo Bassano
Jacopo Bassano, born Jacopo dal Ponte around 1510 in Bassano del Grappa, trained first with his painter father, Francesco da Ponte, and then studied in Venice. He was known by the name of his native town.
Bassano returned to Bassano del Grappa and led a family workshop. He painted altarpieces, biblical subjects, landscapes, and portraits, often bringing animals, rural settings, and closely observed natural detail into religious scenes.
He died in 1592. His sons Francesco, Giovanni Battista, Leandro, and Gerolamo continued the workshop and extended the Bassano manner well into the following century.
