Nicolas Neufchâtel (known as Lucidel) (c. 1527 – c. 1590)

• Was a Flemish painter and draughtsman.
• He worked in Germany and was noted as one of the leading portrait painters of the 1560s.
• The earliest likely reference to Neufchatel occurs in the archives of the Antwerp's Guild of St. Luke, which list a 'Colyn van Nieucasteel' as a student of Pieter Coecke van Aelst in the year 1539.
• As a student in Antwerp, Neufchatel would have been introduced to the works of Frans Floris, Willem Key, and other masters of the 1540s.
• From 1561 to 1567 he lived in Nuremberg.
• It appears that he relocated to Germany for religious reasons, for on 23 July 1567, the city council ordered him not engage in any more Calvinist agitation.
• It is believed that he stayed in Nuremberg until at least 1573, the year he painted a portrait of Johan Gregor van der Schardt.
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