Nuno Gonçalves (c. 1425 – c. 1491)
• Was a Portuguese painter.
• As a painter, Nuno Gonçalves was active between 1450 and 1472.
• In 1450 he was appointed court painter by King Afonso V.
• In recognition of his contributions, he was knighted by Afonso in 1470.
• In 1471, Gonçalves was appointed the official painter for Lisbon.
• Francisco de Holanda, a 16th-century artist and art historian, called Gonçalves one of the foremost painters of his era.
• He is depicted, among several other historic figures, on the Padrão dos Descobrimentos, a monument to the Portuguese Age of Discovery in Belém, Lisbon.
• His surviving masterpiece is the polyptych known as the Saint Vincent Panels.
