Baldassare d'Este (c. 1432 - after 1506)

• Also known as Baldassare Estense.
• Was an Italian painter.
• He was born in Reggio.
• He has been supposed to have been an illegitimate scion of the house of Este, since no mention of his father's name ever occurs in contemporary records, whilst he was called 'Estensis.'
• He was a pupil of Cosimo Tura.
• From 1471 to 1504 he was a salaried officer at the court of Ferrara, living first in Castel Nuovo, for which he painted a canvas that has perished, and afterwards in Castel Tedaldo, of which he was the governor.
• In 1483 he painted the portrait of Tito Strozzi, now in the Costabili Gallery at Ferrara.
• His will, dated 1500, is in the archives of Ferrara, but the exact date of his death is unknown.
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