Johannes Stradanus, 1523 – 1605, zugeschrieben

PORTRAIT OF A PRELATE Oil on wood. 98.5 x 74.5 cm. In ornamentally decorated frame. Accompanied by an expertise by Nello Forti Grazzini, in copy. Born in Bruges in 1523, the artist was a pupil of Pieter Aertsen and had been enrolled in the Guild of St. Luke in Antwerp since 1645. In 1550 he moved to Rome and three years later to Florence, where he worked until his death in 1605. The seated figure of a bearded man, turned slightly to the left and holding an open book, stands in front of a suggested interior. Literature: Cf. Baroni, M. Sellink, Stradanus, 1523 - 1605, Court Artist of the medici, 2012. Cf. A. Baroni Vannucci, Jan Van Der Straet Detto Giovanni Stradano - Flandrus Pictor et Inventor, Rome 1997. (1380317) (13) Johannes Stradanus, 1523 - 1605, attributed PORTRAIT OF A PRELATE Oil on wood. 98.5 x 74.5 cm. Accompanied by an expert's report by Nello Forti Grazzini, in copy.