Donors

Cosmè Tura
St Paul and St Maurelio
with donor Bartolomeo Roverella
ca. 1474
oil on panel (altarpiece fragment)
Palazzo Colonna, Rome

Hugo van der Goes
Portrait of a Donor
ca. 1475
oil on panel
(altarpiece fragment, not originally oval)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

workshop of Giovanni Bellini
Virgin and Child with St John the Baptist,
Mary Magdalen, St George, St Peter and a Donor
ca. 1475-1500
oil on panel
Musée du Louvre

Hans Memling
Virgin and Child in Rose Garden with Angels, and St George with a Donor
ca. 1480
oil on panels (diptych)
Alte Pinakothek, Munich

Master of the Embroidered Foliage (Netherlandish painter)
Portrait of Donors Louis de Quarry and Barbe de Cruysinck
ca. 1480
oil on panel
Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille

Antoniazzo Romano (Antonio Aquili)
St Sebastian with Donors
ca. 1480-85
tempera on panel
Palazzo Barberini, Rome

Geertgen tot Sint Jans
Raising of Lazarus with Kneeling Donors
ca. 1480-85
oil on panel
Musée du Louvre

Bernardo Zenale
Circumcision of Christ with Saints and a Donor
ca. 1512
oil on panels
(lower half of altarpiece)
Musée du Louvre

Aert Claesz (Aertgen van Leyden)
Portrait of a Donor
ca. 1530
oil on panel
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid

Teramo Piaggio
Madonna of the Rosary
with St Lucy, St Catherine of Siena and Donors
1536
oil on panel (altarpiece)
Chiesa di San Giovanni Battista, Savona

Francesco Bissolo
Presentation of the Christ Child in Landscape with Donor
before 1541
oil on panel
Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice

Paolo Veronese
Virgin and Child with Saints and Donors
1546
oil on canvas
Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence

Maarten van Heemskerck
Ecce Homo with Saints and Donors
1559
oil on panels (triptych)
Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem

Francis Cleyn
St Catherine of Alexandria with Kneeling Donor
ca. 1608
drawing (study for wing of altarpiece)
British Museum

Anthony van Dyck after Titian
Holy Family with young St John the Baptist and a Donor
ca. 1621-27
drawing
(from van Dyck's Italian sketchbook, formerly at Chatsworth)
British Museum

Juan de Valdés Leal
Immaculate Conception with Donors
ca. 1661
oil on canvas
National Gallery, London

Peter Halm after Dirk Bouts
Portrait of a Donor
ca. 1900
etching and drypoint
(copied from painting of 1470)
British Museum

My spirit longeth for thee

            Within my troubled breast,

Although I be unworthy

            Of so divine a guest.

Of so divine a guest

            Unworthy though I be,

Yet has my heart no rest

            Unless it come from thee.

Unless it come from thee, 

            In vain I look around;

In all that I can see,

            No rest is to be found.

No rest is to be found

            But in thy blessed Love;

O! let my wish be crowned,

            And send it from above!

– John Byrom (1692-1763)