Memling

Memling, or more correctly MEMLING, HANS, Flemish painter, was born at Mainz in the first half of the 15th century, of Dutch parents, and died at Bruges, where most of his life was spent, on 11th August 1494. His painting gained him a wide reputation, extending even to England and Italy. His principal works are sacred subjects, such as 'The Last Judgment' (at Danzig), 'Seven Sorrows and Seven Joys of the Virgin,' 'Marriage of St Catharine,' 'Adoration,' several Madonnas, and the fourteen small paintings that adorn the shrine containing St Ursula's relics at Cologne; and portraits, as of Sir John Donne, of Burgo- master Moreel, and of Moreel's daughter. See Lives by Weale (Dutch, 1871), Michiels (French, 1883), and Kaemmerer (1899); Art Journal (1885, p. 318).