Master of the Baroncelli Portraits (fl. 1480-1490)

• Master of the Baroncelli Portraits is the notname for a fifteenth-century Early Netherlandish painter.

• Active in Bruges around 1480–1490.

• He is named after a pair of portraits (originally the wings of a triptych) of the Italian banker Pierantonio Baroncelli and his wife Maria Bonciani, which are now in the collection of the Uffizi Gallery in Florence.

• Only a few other works by the same master are known.

• A Pentecost, the provenance of which can be traced back to Bruges, ca. 1600, was sold in 2010 at Christie's for £4,185,250.

• His work, and especially the Pentecost, has been influential on later artists from Bruges, in particular Simon Bening.

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