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Simon Marmion, ca. (1425–1489)

• Was a French and Burgundian Early Netherlandish painter of panels and illuminated manuscripts.
• Marmion lived and worked in what is now France but for most of his lifetime was part of the Duchy of Burgundy in the Southern Netherlands.
• Marmion came from a family of artists, his father Jean, and his brother Mille were painters.
• He was patronized by Philip the Good, the Duke of Burgundy from 1454 when he was called to Lille.
• Marmion is recorded as working at Amiens between 1449 and 1454, and then at Valenciennes from 1458 until his death.
• Marmion's oeuvre amounts to some 40 each of manuscripts and panel paintings.
• Most of the biographical documentation relates to his ownership of real estate property.
• The displayed painting is a crop from: Simon Marmion, Saint Clement and a Donor, late 1480s by Follower of Simon Marmion.
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