John Baptiste de Medina | |
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_-_PG_1555_-_National_Galleries_of_Scotland.jpg) Self Portrait, or The Portrait Painter (c. 1698). Oil on canvas, 77.2 × 63.5 cm. In the collection of the National Galleries of Scotland. | |
| Born | c. 1 January 1659 |
| Died | 5 October 1710 (aged 51) |
| Nationality | Scottish |
Sir John Baptist Medina or John Baptiste de Medina (1659 – 5 October 1710)[1] was an artist of Flemish-Spanish origin who worked in England and Scotland, mostly as a portrait painter, though he was also the first illustrator of Paradise Lost by John Milton in 1688.[2]
- ^ Getty Name List – and variants, sometimes spelled "Baptiste", and "de Medina", but always "John"
- ^ Behrendt, 91