Biography of juan de flandes

Flemish painter (c.1460-c.1519)

Juan de Flandes ("John of Flanders"; c. 1460 – by 1519) was a Flemish painter active in Spain from 1496 to 1519.

His actual name is unknown, although an inscription Juan Astrat on the back of one work suggests a name such as "Jan van der Straat".^[1] Jan Sallaert, who became a master in Ghent in 1480, has also been suggested.

Juan de Flandes was a Flemish painter active in Spain from to His actual name is unknown, although an inscription Juan Astrat on the back of one.

Juan de Flandes was a Flemish painter active in Spain from to His actual name is unknown, although an inscription Juan Astrat on the back of one.

Juan de Flandes was a Flemish painter active in Spain from to His actual name is unknown, although an inscription Juan Astrat on the back of one work suggests a name such as "Jan van der Straat".

Biography.

Although the artist's family name is not known for certain, he was first documented as “Juan de Flandes” in at the court of Queen Isabella of Castile and.

Netherlandish painter active in Spain from He was one of a number of north European artists trained in the Ghent-Bruges school employed by Queen Isabella.

He worked in the Early Netherlandish style.^[2]

Life and works

He may have been born around 1460 somewhere in Flanders, Flandes in Spanish, which encompassed modern Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg and bordering regions of France.^[3] He evidently trained in his home country, most likely in Ghent, as his work shows similarities to that of Joos van Wassenhove, Hugo van der Goes and other Ghent artists.

He is only documented after he became an artist at the court of Queen Isabella I of Castile, where he is first mentioned in the accounts in October 1496. He is descri