Anton Boys or Anton Waiss[1][2] (born between 1530 and 1550 – died after 1593)[3] was a Flemish painter, draughtsman and printmaker who after training in Antwerp had an international career, which brought him to Italy, Spain, Prague, Innsbruck and Landshut.
He was court painter to Archduke Ferdinand II of Austria for whom he realised a series of contemporary and historical portraits of members of the imperial House of Habsburg. Many of these portraits are in the collection of the Kunsthistorisches Museum.[3][4] Boys was also an important witness and illustrator of key events in the life of the Habsburgs: he made the engravings for a book describing celebrations on the occasion of the grant of the Order of the Golden Fleece to leading Imperial court members and created an almost life-size depiction of a wedding banquet of a powerful aristocratic family in the service of the Imperial family.[4][5][6]
- ^ Name variations: Anthony Bays, Antoni Bays, Antoni Baijs, Anton Bois, Antoni Waiss
- ^ Wenzel II., Gemahl v. Gutta, König v. Böhmen, Archived 12 July 2018 at the Wayback Machine at Kulturpool (in German)
- ^ a b Anton Boys at the Netherlands Institute for Art History (in Dutch)
- ^ a b Zehendtner, Ordenliche Beschreibung at lot-tissimo (in German)
- ^ BOYS, Antoni - Painter, engraver, draughtsman in: Benezit Dictionary of Artists
- ^ Anthoni Bays, Gartengastmahl at Schulmediencenter (in German)