Juan de Borgoña the Younger

Antonia Casaseca was the first to identify this artist in 1981.¹ Paintings by Juan de Borgoña the Younger were previously grouped by both Manuel Gómez Moreno and Diego Angulo Iñiguez under the name The Maestro de Toro,² and by Post as The Maestro de Pozuelo.³ Juan de Borgoña the Younger was the younger son of Juan de Borgoña the Elder, the master of the Cathedral of Toledo who established a workshop in that city at the end of the 15th century. Juan de Borgoña the Younger collaborated with his father and is first documented in Toledo in 1534. By all accounts he tried to work in Toledo under the shadow of his father but the presence of Juan Correa de Vivar in the imperial city, who monopolised the commissions of the nobility and the archbishops Fonseca and Tavera, led him to emigrate to Zamora.

We are grateful to Isabel Mateo for endorsing the attribution to Juan de Borgoña the Younger on the basis of digital images.

¹ A. Casaseca, 'El hijo de Juan de Borgoña y la pintura renacentista de Zamora', in A introduçao da arte da Renascença na Peninsula Ibérica, Actas do Simposio Internacional, Coimbra 1981, pp. 201-26.

² M. Gómez Moreno, Catálogo Monumental de Zaragoza, Madrid 1927; D. Angulo Iñiguez, 'Pintura del Renacimiento', in Ars Hispaniae, vol. XII, p. 109.

³ R. Post, A History of Spanish Painting, Cambridge 1930, vol. IX, pp. 570-81.