Van der Goes

Van der Goes, HUGO, a Flemish painter of the school of Van Eyck, was born in Ghent, and was dean of the painters' guild there in 1473–75. Soon after he withdrew to a monastery at Soignies, where he died bereft of reason in 1482. Only one of the works attributed to him—a triptych in the hospital of Santa Maria Nuova at Florence, consisting of an adoration of the infant Christ by the Virgin, with portraits—is indisputably genuine. The famous Stewart triptych at Holyrood is believed by good judges to be his; and there are works attributed to him in the National Gallery and many continental collections.