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MORO, ANTONIO (c. 1512-1575)

This article appears in Volume V18, Page 850 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: MOL-MOS
MORO, ANTONIO (c. 1512-1575) , otherwise known as Sir Anthony More, the eminent portrait-painter, was born at
Utrecht
  in 1512 according to some, but in 1525 according to Karl van Mander in his Het Leven der Schilders. He studied his art under Jan Schoorel; and after making a professional visit to Italy he commenced to paint portraits in the style of Hans Holbein. His rise to
eminence
  was rapid. In 1552 he was invited to Madrid by the emperor Charles V. to execute a likeness of Prince Philip. Two years afterwards he was in London
painting
  the portrait of Queen
Mary
 . For this picture an annual salary and, as some suppose, the honour of
knighthood
  were conferred upon him. On the death of
Mary
  in 1558 Moro returned to Spain, and lived there for two years in
great
  honour with Philip II., executing, in addition to portraits, several copies after Titian. His death took place at Antwerp about 1575. Among his figure-pictures Van Mander specifies the "
Circumcision
  of Christ," executed for Antwerp
Cathedral
 , as one of the most notable. His portraits are full of individuality, and characterized by firm and solid rendering of flesh. Several admirable examples are preserved in Madrid; among the rest the portrait of Queen Mary of England, which has been excellently etched by Milius (L'Art, Dec. 8, 1878). " Moro's style," says
Stanley
  in his Dutch and Flemish Painters, " so much resembles that of Holbein as to frequently create a doubt to which of them a portrait is to be attributed; but he is not so clear and delicate in his colouring (perhaps from having painted so much in Spain) as that master."


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