22nd October 2012

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low-country: Michel Sittow - Catherine of Aragon (1504) A native of Estonia, Sittow’s years in Bruges as a student of Memling gained him the nickname ‘Mychel Flamenco’, or Michel the Fleming. an artist somewhat like Van Dyck in a later epoch; a brilliant painter of religious subjects, but of outstanding qualities as a portrait painter. His portraits are among the finest of their time, vivid, candid, crisply elegant and reserved. (E P Richardson, Bulletin of Detroit Institute of Arts)

low-country:

Michel Sittow - Catherine of Aragon (1504)

A native of Estonia, Sittow’s years in Bruges as a student of Memling gained him the nickname ‘Mychel Flamenco’, or Michel the Fleming.

an artist somewhat like Van Dyck in a later epoch; a brilliant painter of religious subjects, but of outstanding qualities as a portrait painter. His portraits are among the finest of their time, vivid, candid, crisply elegant and reserved.

(E P Richardson, Bulletin of Detroit Institute of Arts)

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