Hans Memling
German/Flemish painter (c. 1430–1494)
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GermanyA German-born painter who moved to Bruges and became one of its wealthiest citizens by the 1480s, Memling ran a large workshop turning out religious commissions thick with donor portraits — the bankers and clergy who paid him inserted right into the frame.
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Born around 1430 in the Middle Rhine, probably raised in Mainz, Memling trained in the Brussels workshop of Rogier van der Weyden before settling in Bruges in 1465 as a new citizen. There he built a workshop that served the city's ruling class: his altarpieces and devotional panels wove patron portraits — clergymen, aristocrats, merchants — directly into sacred scenes, a technique rooted in the Early Netherlandish tradition he'd absorbed as an apprentice. By 1480 a tax roll named him among Bruges' richest residents. He married Anna de Valkenaere and fathered three children; he died in August 1…
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