Anthonis Mor (Zw./between 1516 und/and 1521 - vor/bevor 17.4.1576)

From around 1535 Mor was apprenticed to Jan van Scorel in Utrecht, later becoming his employee. Before 1544 the artist visited Italy and Rome, and in 1547 the Antwerp Guild of St Luke named him master. Helped by his pupil Conrad Schot, Mor worked for many years for Cardinal Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle, who introduced him at the Brussels court. Mor rose to become the best-paid and respected portraitist, known throughout Europe. He was court painter to Emperor Charles V in Spain and Philip II in Brussels. He left Spain in 1561, living alternately in Utrecht, Brussels and Antwerp, where he was re-registered as a master in the Guild of St Luke in 1572.

Author: Ducke Astrid

Literature: Ducke Astrid, Habersatter Thomas (Hrsg./Edi.): von | from 0 auf | to 100. Residenzgalerie Salzburg 1923-2023. Salzburg 2023, S./p. 176