Flemish 1415-1473 Petrus Christus Locations South Netherlandish painter. His known artistic career began in Bruges on 6 July 1444 when, as the Poorterboek (citizens register) for that day reveals, he purchased his citizenship ... in order to be a painter. Town records show that he and his wife became members of the Confraternity of the Dry Tree c. 1462; that in 1463 he and another painter, Pieter Nachtegale, were paid for the construction of a Tree of Jesse (destr.) and for the cost of assistants employed on the day of the religious procession in which it was used; and that on 19 March 1472 he served as a representative of the painters guild in a dispute with another painter, Jehan de Hervy the elder ( fl 1472-1507). These and a few other scattered references comprise the existing documentation for Christusa life and work.  Related Paintings of Petrus Christus :. | Isabel of Portugal with St Elizabeth | Madonna | The Man of Sorrows | Smart Monday | Portrait of a Young Girl |
Related Artists:
Francois Lamoriniere
painted View at Edegem in 1863
Frederic Dorr Steele
American Illustrator, 1874-1944
John Skinner Prout
(1805-76), nephew of the famous English watercolourist Samuel Prout (1783-1852)