!!!Seisenegger, Jacob

b. 1505, 
d. Linz (Upper Austria), Dec. (?), 1567, from 1531 painter at the 
court of Ferdinand I. Undertook numerous journeys for Ferdinand I, 
e.g. to Spain and the Netherlands; important portraitist of the court, 
painted among others the full-length portraits of Emperor Charles V 
kept in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna (1532, model for the 
emperor's portrait by Titian, 1532/1533, Prado, Madrid) and of 
Archduke Ferdinand II of Tyrol (1548); stylistically related to the 
Augsburg school of painting.

!Literature
K. Loecher, J. S. - Hofmaler Ks. Ferdinands I., 1962.



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