Master of the Brandon Portrait

The Master of the Brandon Portrait or Portraits was an Early Netherlandish painter active about 1510–1530 in Bruges and at the court of Henry VIII in England. His notname is based on the Portrait of Charles Brandon, Earl of Suffolk now in a private collection. He may be the same person as Joannes Corvus.[1][2][3]

Portrait of Charles Brandon, circa 1510–1530 (private collection)

Probably a follower of Gerard David, his style is reminiscent of that of Adriaen Isenbrandt.[2]

Brandon portrait edit

Long thought to be a depiction of Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham by Hans Holbein the Younger and exhibited as such several times in the Victorian times, in the 1930s the painting was finally identified as a portrait of Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk, a Tudor politician and Henry VIII's personal friend.[3]

Other works edit

Notes edit

  1. ^ a b "Master of the Brandon Portraits". Benezit Dictionary of Artists at Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 26 May 2016.
  2. ^ a b Brandon Portrait, Master of the. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-533466-1. Retrieved 26 May 2016. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)
  3. ^ a b "Lot 1: Master of the Brandon Portrait, Portrait of Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk". Sotheby's. Retrieved 26 May 2016.
  4. ^ a b "Portrait of a Man with a Samson Medal, c. 1515–1530". Mauritshuis, The Hague. Retrieved 26 May 2016.
  5. ^ van Suchtelen 2012

References edit

  • Max Jakob Friedländer (1937). "Ein Vlämischer Portraitmaler in England". Gentsche Bijdragen tot de Kunstgeschiedenis (in German). IV: 5–18.
  • Paul Ganz [in German] (1937). "A Portrait of Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, by "The Master of Queen Mary Tudor"". The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs. 70 (410): 204–207 + 210–211. JSTOR 866918.
  • Ariane van Suchtelen [in Dutch] (2012). "'Niet minder mooi en niet minder zeldzaam en waardevol': de Meester van het brandon-portret en het Portret van een man met een Simson-medaille". Face Book; Studies on Dutch and Flemish Portraiture of the 16th-18th Centuries (in Dutch). Leiden: Primavera Pers. pp. 15–22. ISBN 978-9059971325.