Guess the Artist

Your clues this week are:

• The artist was a French Huguenot, born and raised in Switzerland following the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes.
• The artist was famous for portraiture ... a long time ago. Today the artist's name is fairly obscure.
• An inveterate traveler, the artist spent four years in Constantinople and wore Turkish clothing (including a fez) forever afterwards.
  
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• Among the artist's many sitters were: Pope Clement XII; Bonnie Prince Charlie; the Empress Maria Theresa; Madame de Pompadour; Augusta, Princess of Wales; the Earls of Sandwichand Bessborough; the French royal family; and the House of Orange.

Please email me your guesses over the coming week. I'll post the winner and correct answer with next week's guessing game. Good luck!

Last Week's Answer:

Last week's winning answer came courtesy of Jeanne, who knew that the artist's name was Jan Gossaert (Flemish, ca. 1472-1532), also known as Mabuse. His painting The Three Children of Christian II of Denmark (1526) depicts exactly that. The youngest child was Christina of Denmark (1521-1590), who actually had two marriages: first, by proxy, to Francesco II Sforza, Duke of Milan (1495-1535), who died before the couple even met, and second to Francis I, Duke of Lorraine (1517-1545). Well done, Jeanne!

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