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The Old White King Sending His Messengers to Portugal Wall Art
ART BY: Leonhard Beck
The Old White King Sending His Messengers to Portugal Wall Art
ART BY: Leonhard Beck
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The Old White King Sending His Messengers to Portugal is a print, woodcut by Leonhard Beck (1490–1512), dated 1514/1516. The artist is catalogued as German. The source scan comes from the National Gallery of Art, and the file offered here measures 3353 × 3790 px (4.7 MB). It is filed under Prints and Renaissance, in portrait format. Archive Lane holds 116 works by Leonhard Beck.
Leonhard Beck was a painter and woodcuts designer in Augsburg, Germany. He was the son of Georg Beck, a miniaturist who was active in Augsburg c. 1490–1512/15. Leonhard collaborated with his father on two psalters for the Augsburg monastery in 1495. He later worked as an assistant to Hans Holbein the Elder, contributing to an altarpiece in 1500–1501, which is now housed in the Städel museum in Frankfurt am Main.
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