Vincent Sellaer Active in Malines before 1538 - after 1544

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Description

Vincent Sellaer
The Madonna and Child with the Infant Saint John the Baptist and a child pilgrim, a landscape visible through a window beyond
oil on panel

Provenance

Bought by an ancestor of the present owner in 1954 upon the advice of Dr. Hubertus von Sonnenburg;
Thence by descent.

Catalogue Note

Of the generation of Italianicizing artists, Sellaer was, with Michiel Coxcie, the principal artist in Malines (Mecheln) in the mid-16th Century, although his stylistic connections were with artists elsewhere, especially in Bruges, and in particular Pieter Pourbus.