Artist
Justus Sustermans
Habsburg Netherlands, 1597–1681
Justus Sustermans was a Habsburg Netherlands Flemish Baroque painting painter. 30 works are cataloged here, principally at Uffizi Gallery, most of them oil paintings. Justus Sustermans was born in Antwerp.
Justus Sustermans, Joost Sustermans or Suttermans, his given name Italianised to Giusto (28 September 1597 – 23 April 1681), was a Flemish painter and draughtsman who is mainly known for his portraits. He also painted history and genre paintings, still lifes and animals. Sustermans is chiefly noted for his portraits of members of the Medici family as he was its court painter.
The Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II invited him to Vienna to paint portraits of the Imperial family and granted Sustermans and his brothers patents of nobility. During his lifetime he was fêted as the finest portrait painter in Italy.
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