János Priwitzer (c.1590-c.1665): migration, painting and diplomacy
Abstract
János Priwitzer was a baroque artist of Slovakian origin (Kingdom of Hungary), who migrated to English lands, where he earned his life as a portraitist for the court and the British gentry, under the influence of the Anglo-Netherlandish School. Within this social circle, he strongly linked with the Spanish embassy of the time, particularly with two of its diplomats, the Count of Gondomar –portrayed by Priwitzer– and Virgilio Malvezzi, for whom he could also work as an agent. The English Civil War forced him to flee because of his Catholic condition, in the middle of an enraged Protestant upheaval. After a brief stay in Ireland, he arrived in Spain as a victim of the Dunkirker privateering. He ended his life in Bilbao, with a double occupation: teaching of painting and mercantile diplomacy in the active port of Bizkaia. Briefly, an intense life full of hazards, which revealed an artistic personality, still to be completely found out.
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