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Description: | Signed: yes Description: Nothing is known about the sitter 'David Patty'. He is shown swathed in stiff folds of red, baroque drapery which, together with the classical architectural background, lend the sitter a sense of gravity. John de Medina was a Flemish artist who was born in Brussels, studied with the French artist, François Duchatel and also in the studio of Rubens. He moved to London in 1688 where he immediately began to specialise in portraits of the Scottish nobility. He was encouraged to move to Scotland by David Melville, 3rd Earl of Leven, who helped him to set up a studio in Edinburgh in 1693. He was knighted in 1707. | Subjects: | portrait (David Patty) | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Medina, John Baptist de (Flemish-Spanish painter, 1659-1710, active in Scotland) Æ Attributed to | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8582... | Go to resource |
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