Much is known about Michael Sittow's peripatetic career painting for princely patrons, but few securely attributed paintings survive. A painter's son, Sittow was in his third year of apprenticeship in Bruges by 1486. In 1492 he was in Spain working as court painter to Queen Isabella. Although he remained in Isabella's service until her death in 1504, he had left Spain by late 1502. He then spent s
