Tuesday, December 8, 2015

Antonis Mor, portrait painter


Antonis Mor
Sir Thomas Gresham
c. 1560
Rijksmuseum

Antonis Mor
Woman with Gold Chains
c. 1560
Prado

Antonis Mor
Margaret of Parma
c. 1559
Philadelphia Museum of Art

Antonis Mor (1517-1577) was a Flemish portrait painter of great gifts and fortunate contacts who spent most of his working life moving among European courts. There were two long stays in Spain, which accounts for the wealth of Mor's portraits in the Prado today.

"Mor sensitively captured the spirit of a tense and conflicted time, and the chilly composure and suspicious haughtiness of the international aristocracy that took the Spain of Philip II as its model. ... His verisimilitude merges with an exaltation of rank to express the solitude of the powerful, touched at times with a sense of anguish."

Antonis Mor
Philip II, King of Spain
1560
El Escorial

Antonis Mor
Mary Tudor, Queen of England
1554
Prado

Antonis Mor
Jane Dormer, favorite of Mary Tudor
c. 1558
Prado

Antonis Mor
Woman with Lapdog
c. 1560-65
Prado

Antonis Mor
Woman with Jewel
c. 1552
Prado

Antonis Mor
Catalina of Austria, Regent of Portugal
1552-53
Prado

Antonis Mor
Portrait of a Gentleman
1569
National Gallery of Art (U.S.)

circle of Antonis Mor
Portrait of a Man in Armor
1558
Getty

Antonis Mor
Pejerón, the Jester of the Duke of Alba
c. 1560
Prado