Dr. Ellen Konowitz has recently reascribed all the panel paintings previously given to Dirck Vellert (who is known through his drawings, prints and stained glass) to the Master of the Lille Adoration, named for a painting in the Musée des Palais des Beaux-Arts in Lille. As the artistic production of this master continues to be more clearly defined and studied from the technical point of view, it has become evident that some works in the oeuvre of Jan Gossart most likely belong to this group as well: the Holy Family in Saint Louis, the Lucretia in a private collection, and the Portrait of a Man in Hamilton.
This master was influenced in part by Gossart's works in the 1520s but never entirely abandoned his attachment to Antwerp Mannerism.
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