Antonio del Rincón (painter)

Isabella I of Castile, Queen of Castile and León by Antonio del Rincón, Museo de Casa de los Tiros

Antonio del Rincón (ca. 1446–1500) was a 15th-century Spanish painter and artist, a court painter to los Reyes Católicos, Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile.^[1]

Born in Guadalajara, Spain around 1446, del Rincón is supposed to have studied painting in Italy, either in Rome^[2] or Florence, possibly under Andrea del Castagno or Domenico Ghirlandajo.^[3] Upon his return to Spain he was appointed court painter by the Catholic Monarchs, whose portraits he painted. He was awarded the Order of St. Jago for his contributions to the court, and has been described by 19th-century art historians to be "considered as the founder of the Spanish school [of painting]"^[4] and "the first distinguished Spanish painter".^[1]

Notes

1. Wornum (1847), p.411
2. According to Pilkington (1840), p.499
3. According to Wornum (1847), p.411
4. Pilkington (1840), p.499

References

• Pilkington, Matthew (1840). A General Dictionary of Painters; containing memoirs of the lives and works of the most eminent professors of the art of painting, from its revival, by Cimabue, in the year 1250, to the present time (New edition, corrected and revised, with an introduction, historical and critical, and twenty-six new lives of artists of the British school, by Allan Cunningham ed.). London: Thomas Tegg. OCLC 68501631.
• Wornum, Ralph Nicholson (1847). The Epochs of Painting Characterized: A Sketch of the History of Painting, Ancient and Modern, showing its Gradual and Various Development from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time. London: C. Cox. OCLC 6558895.