Barthel Beham (1502–1540)

• Was a German engraver, miniaturist and painter.
• The younger brother of Hans Sebald Beham.
• He was born into a family of artists in Nuremberg.
• Learning his art from his elder brother, and Albrecht Dürer.
• In 1525, along with his brother and Georg Pencz, the so-called "godless painters", he was banished from Lutheran Nuremberg for asserting his disbelief in baptism, Christ, or transubstantiation.
• Although later pardoned, he moved to Catholic Munich to work for the Bavarian dukes William IV and Ludwig X. Whilst there.
• Beham was patroned  by Emperor Charles V.
• According to Joachim von Sandrart, he died in Italy during a trip under the patronage of Duke William.
• The displayed painting is a crop from: Barthel Beham, Portrait of the Strasbourg Johanniterkomturs Balthasar Gerhardi, 1528.
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