Ambrogio De Predis

Ambrogio De Predis c.1455-c.1506, Milanese painter. He worked under Leonardo da Vinci and copied many of his paintings. He also executed several portraits of the Sforzas (National Gall. of Art, Washington, D.C.; Vienna).

Predis, Ambrogio de (or Ambrogio de Preda) (b Milan, c.1455; d after 1508). Milanese painter. He was court painter to Ludovico Sforza and worked mainly as a portraitist, but he is chiefly remembered for his association, together with his elder half-brother Evangelista de Predis (d after 1490), with Leonardo da Vinci in the 1483 contract for the Virgin of the Rocks in the National Gallery, London. The wings of this altarpiece, depicting angels with musical instruments, are of much lower quality than the centre panel and are presumed to be by Ambrogio and/or Evangelista. The National Gallery also has a portrait by Ambrogio (Profile Portrait of a Lady, c.1500), showing his rather wooden imitation of Leonardo's style.

Predis (or Preda), Ambrogio de (c.1455–after 1508). Milanese painter. He was court painter to Ludovico Sforza and worked mainly as a portraitist, but he is chiefly remembered for his association with Leonardo da Vinci, for whom he worked as an assistant on the Virgin of the Rocks (NG, London). The wings of this altarpiece, depicting angels with musical instruments, are of much lower quality than the centre panel and are presumed to be by Ambrogio and/or his elder half-brother Evangelista de Predis (d. 1490/1). The National Gallery also has two portraits attributed to Ambrogio (one of them dated 1494), showing a rather wooden imitation of Leonardo's style.