Artist

Michael Sittow

Portrait of Diego de Guevara (?)
The Assumption of the Virgin
Nativity
Mary with the Child

Estonian, 1459–1525

Michael Sittow was an Estonian Northern Renaissance painter. 12 works are cataloged here, principally at Kunsthistorisches Museum, most of them oil paintings. Michael Sittow was born in Tallinn.

Michael Sittow (c. 1469 – 1525), also known as Master Michiel, Michel Sittow, Michiel, Miguel Sithium, and several other variants, was a painter from Reval (Tallinn), now capital of Estonia, who was trained in the tradition of Early Netherlandish painting. For most of his life, Sittow worked as a court portrait painter, for Isabella of Castile and her Habsburg relatives in Spain and the Netherlands, and other prominent royal houses. He is considered one of the most important Netherlandish painters of the era.

Works by Michael Sittow

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