Gregório Lopes (c. 1490 – 1550)

• Was a Portuguese painter.
• Gregório Lopes was educated in the workshop of Jorge Afonso.
• Later he himself became court painter for both Kings Manuel I and for his successor, John III.
• In 1514, he married the daughter of Jorge Afonso.
• In 1520 was knighted by Prince Jorge de Lencastre and entered the Order of Santiago.
• The work of Gregório Lopes mainly consists of painted religious altarpieces for various churches and monasteries in central Portugal.

• Between 1520 and 1525 he worked (together with Jorge Leal) in painting altarpieces for the Saint Francis Convent of Lisbon.

• The painter moved in the 1530s to the city of Tomar, where he painted various panels for the Round Church of the Convent of Christ.

• His son, Cristóvão Lopes (1516–1594), was also an artist.

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