Bernard van Orley

Bernard van Orley , or Barend van Orley , c.1491-1542, Flemish painter. In 1515 he was settled in Brussels, where he became court painter to Margaret of Austria, regent of the Netherlands, and to her successor, Mary of Hungary. Influenced by Dürer and Raphael, van Orley may have gone to Italy to study Raphael's tapestry cartoons. Among his paintings are Holy Family (Louvre); a triptych, The Tribulations of Job (Brussels); Crucifixion (Rotterdam); and The Last Judgment (Antwerp). Van Orley also executed designs for stained glass and tapestries, an example of the latter being the Hunts of Maximilian (Louvre).

Orley, Bernard van (or Barend Orley) (b Brussels, c.1490; d Brussels, 6 Jan. 1542). Netherlandish painter of religious subjects and portraits and designer of tapestries and stained glass. He was the leading artist of his day in Brussels, becoming court painter to Margaret of Austria (see Habsburg), regent of the Netherlands, in 1518 and to her successor Mary of Hungary in 1532. His work is full of Italianate motifs, often rather ill digested. There is no evidence that he visited Italy, and his knowledge presumably came from engravings and from Raphael's tapestry cartoons, which were in Brussels c.1516–19; he has (very flatteringly) been called ‘the Raphael of the Netherlands’. His best-known work is the turbulent Job altarpiece (1521, Mus. Royaux, Brussels). As a portraitist his style was quieter and more thoughtful (Georg Zelle, 1519, Mus. Royaux, Brussels). None of van Orley's paintings bears a date later than 1530; after that time he was chiefly occupied with designing tapestries and stained-glass windows.

Orley, Bernard (or Barend van) (c.1490–1542). Netherlandish painter of religious subjects and portraits and designer of tapestries and stained glass. He was the leading artist of his day in Brussels, becoming court painter to Margaret of Austria (see Habsburg), regent of the Netherlands, in 1518 and to her successor Mary of Hungary in 1532. His work is full of Italianate motifs, often rather ill-digested. There is no evidence that he visited Italy, and his knowledge presumably came from engravings and from Raphael's tapestry cartoons, which were in Brussels c.1516–19; he has (very flatteringly) been called ‘the Raphael of the Netherlands’. His best-known work is the turbulent Job altarpiece (1521, Mus. Royaux, Brussels, 1521). As a portraitist his style was quieter and more thoughtful (Georg Zelle, 1519, Mus. Royaux, Brussels). None of van Orley's paintings bears a date later than 1530; after that time he was chiefly occupied with designing tapestries and stained-glass windows.