Hans Memling

Hans Memling was born c. 1440 in Seligenstadt, near Frankfurt-am-Main in Germany. He studied in Cologne and then in the Southern Netherlands under Rogier van der Weyden (1399 – 1464). He continued to live in the Southern Netherlands, where he enjoyed great success as a painter, with commissions to paint around thirty altarpieces, many religious works and over thirty portraits. In c. 1480 he painted a second ‘narrative’ painting, The Advent and Triumph of Christ, now in the Alte Pinakotek, Munich. He died in Bruges in 1494.