 Sir John Medina is primarily known as Jean-Baptiste Medina
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Half-length portrait of James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose, in armour
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Jean- Baptist Medina or Sir John Baptist Medina or John Baptiste de Medina (c. 1659 – October 5, 1710)
He was an artist of Flemish-Spanish origin who worked in England and Scotland, mostly as a portrait painter, though he was also the first illustrator of Paradise Lost by John Milton in 1688.
Medina was the son of a Spanish army captain posted to Brussels, where he was born and later trained by François Duchatel, before coming to London in 1686 and setting up his studi (showing 500 of 3893 characters). |
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