Jean Bellegambe
1470-1535
Jean Bellegambe was Netherlandish, northern Renaissance painter and designer. He was born in Douai, 1470, and died between June 1535 and March 1536 in Douai.
His father, George Bellegambe, a cabinetmaker and musician, was a prominent citizen of Douai. Jean is first mentioned in a document of 1504, when he is referred to as a master painter, a burgher and married.
His teacher is unknown, but his work bears some imprint of the art of Jan Provoost, who inherited Simon Marmion's studio. Bellegambe might equally have been apprenticed in Bruges or Brussels, probably in the atelier of the Master of the Legend of St Mary Magdalen.
The calm and tranquility of Bellegambe's compositions, his treatment of landscape, his lightness of technique, his pursuit of clear, soft colors and delicate harmonies all indicate links with the work of Gérard David and Quinten Metsys. In the 17th century Bellegambe was known as 'the Master of Colors'.
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