713. MADONNA AND CHILD.
Jan Mostaert (Early Dutch: 1474-1555).
See also (p. xx)
Mostaert, a native of Haarlem, was for eighteen years painter to Margaret of Austria, Regent of the Netherlands. A picture ascribed to him is preserved in the church of Notre Dame at Bruges, but no known pictures bear his signature. A large number of his works perished in the great fire at Haarlem in 1571.
One of the few specimens in the Gallery of the first period of Dutch art, when it was still following the traditions of the Early Flemish School.