Quo Fuit places 6 dated presences for Michael Sittow across 5 places, from 1482 to 1525.
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Michael Sittow ( 1469 – 1525), also known as Master Michiel, Michel Sittow, Michiel, Miguel Sithium, and several other variants, was a painter from Reval (Tallinn), now capital of Estonia, who was trained in the tradition of Early Netherlandish painting.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
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Where Michael Sittow was documented, and when
1482 to 1488period
Brugesattested“After his father's death in 1482, Sittow continued his studies in Bruges in modern Belgium from 1484 to 1488.”source: Wikipedia: Michael Sittow
1501year
Revalattested“In the same year, he returned to Reval, where his stepfather, the glass-maker Diderick van Katwijk, had seized his parents' houses, as Sittow's mother had died in 1501.”source: Wikipedia: Michael Sittow
1504year
Flandersattested“Officially Sittow worked for Isabella until her death in 1504, although he had left Spain two years before and was presumably working in Flanders for the queen's Habsburg son-in-law Philip the Handsome and daughter-in-law Archduchess Mar…”source: Wikipedia: Michael Sittow
1504year
Spainattested“Officially Sittow worked for Isabella until her death in 1504, although he had left Spain two years before and was presumably working in Flanders for the queen's Habsburg son-in-law Philip the Handsome and daughter-in-law Archduchess Mar…”source: Wikipedia: Michael Sittow
1518year
Lübeckattested“He won the case in Lübeck, but could not officially register his parents' houses as his property until the death of his stepfather in 1518.”source: Wikipedia: Michael Sittow
20 December 1525exact date
Revalattested“Sittow died of the plague in Reval between 20 December 1525 and 20 January 1526.”source: Wikipedia: Michael Sittow
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1492year
Toledo, Spainmentioned“From 1492 Sittow worked in Toledo, Spain for Isabella of Castile as court painter.”source: Wikipedia: Michael Sittow
1501year
Duchy of Brabantmentioned“Van Katwijk had journeyed to the Duchy of Brabant in 1501 and offered a property settlement to Sittow that the latter refused.”source: Wikipedia: Michael Sittow
1503 to 1505period
Londonmentioned“Suggestions that Sittow may have visited London in about 1503–1505 to paint portraits of Henry VII (National Portrait Gallery, London) are no longer accepted.”source: Wikipedia: Michael Sittow
1514year
Copenhagenmentioned“In 1514, Sittow visited Copenhagen to paint the portrait of Christian II of Denmark.”source: Wikipedia: Michael Sittow
1514year
Viennamentioned“According to some sources, in 1514 Sittow also painted a portrait of Mary Tudor, Queen of France (now in the Vienna Kunsthistorisches Museum), the daughter of Henry VII, as part of the betrothal negotiations.”source: Wikipedia: Michael Sittow
1515year
Spainmentioned“In 1515, Sittow was again in Spain, this time to claim outstanding debts incurred by Isabella of Castile, and it is significant that in the documentation for his claim he is referred to as pintor criado de madama la prinçesa doña Margari…”source: Wikipedia: Michael Sittow
1516year
Spainmentioned“From the Netherlands, Sittow returned to Spain and worked for Ferdinand II of Aragon, followed in 1516 by the Spanish King Carlos I, the future Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor.”source: Wikipedia: Michael Sittow
1516year
Netherlandsmentioned“From the Netherlands, Sittow returned to Spain and worked for Ferdinand II of Aragon, followed in 1516 by the Spanish King Carlos I, the future Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor.”source: Wikipedia: Michael Sittow
1516 to 1518period
Estoniamentioned“In 1516 (possibly 1517 or 1518) Sittow returned to Estonia.”source: Wikipedia: Michael Sittow
1518year
Revalmentioned“In 1518, he married Dorothie, a daughter of a merchant named Allunsze, in Reval.”source: Wikipedia: Michael Sittow
1520year
Santander, Cantabriamentioned“Brussels 1520, a nobleman whose family came from Santander in northern Spain; valued member of the Habsburg court in Burgundy), and the painting of the Virgin and Child which together with it once formed a diptych, are nearly certain, as…”source: Wikipedia: Michael Sittow
1520year
Burgundymentioned“Brussels 1520, a nobleman whose family came from Santander in northern Spain; valued member of the Habsburg court in Burgundy), and the painting of the Virgin and Child which together with it once formed a diptych, are nearly certain, as…”source: Wikipedia: Michael Sittow
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