Quentin Metsys the Younger
Illustration — The Sieve Portrait of Elizabeth I by Quentin Metsys the Younger, c. 1583 Quentin Metsys the Younger (Quinten or Massys; c. 1543 – 1589) was a Flemish Renaissance painter, one of several of his countrymen active as artists of the Tudor court in the reign of Elizabeth I of England.
Also recorded as Quinten, II Massys · Quinten, II Matsys · Quinten Metsys II · Quinten, II Metsys
Quentin Metsys the Younger
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- 1543 · Antwerp.
- Died
- 1589 · Frankfurt.
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- Southern Netherlands
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- painter
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Illustration — The Sieve Portrait of Elizabeth I by Quentin Metsys the Younger, c. 1583 Quentin Metsys the Younger (Quinten or Massys; c. 1543 – 1589) was a Flemish Renaissance painter, one of several of his countrymen active as artists of the Tudor court in the reign of Elizabeth I of England.
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Born at Antwerp in 1543, died in Frankfurt in 1589.
Places of work recorded in the authority are Antwerp, London and Frankfurt. Work by Quentin Metsys the Younger is recorded in the collections of Pinacoteca Nazionale, Siena.
Quentin Metsys the Younger, Quinten Massys Vision des Propheten Ezechiels
Quinten Metsys / Quentin Metsys the Younger · Auktion Dorotheum Wien
Quentin Metsys the Younger, Quentin metsys the madonna of the cherries2024 CKS 22668 0004 000(083827)
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- 1."Metsys" is the usual and preferred spelling for the grandson; see Getty Union list
- 2.Hearn, p. 86
- 3.See Hearn, p. 85. Although Roy Strong attributed the painting to Cornelis Ketel in 1969 and again in 1987 (see Strong 1987 p. 101), closer examination has revealed that the painting is signed and dated on the base of the globe 1583. Q. MASSYS | ANT (for "of Antwerp").
- 4.Hearn, p. 85; Strong 1987 p. 101
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