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Bernard van Orley (between 1487 and 1491 – 1541)

• Was a versatile Flemish artist and painter.
• He was born and died in Brussels.
• Bernard van Orley belonged to a large family of painters.
• His father Valentin van Orley had been a tapestry designer in Brussels.
• He served as a sort of commissioner of the arts for the Brussels town council.
• He was the court artist of the Habsburg rulers.
• He was extremely productive, concentrating on the design of his works, and leaving their execution largely to others, in the case of painting, and entirely so, in the case of the tapestries and stained glass.
• Many drawings, mostly studies for designs for tapestries and stained glass, also survive.