High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Michael Sittow, also known as Master Michiel, Michel Sittow, Michiel, Miguel and many other variants (c.1469–1525) was a painter from Reval (now Tallinn, Estonia) who was trained in the tradition of Early Netherlandish painting. For most of his life, Sittow worked as a court portrait painter, for Isabella of Castille, the Habsburgs and others in Spain and the Netherlands. He was one of the most important Flemish painters of the era. Michael Sittow was born in 1468 or 1469 in Reval to a wealthy family. His father was painter and wood-carver Clawes (Claves, Claes) van der Sittow (Suttow) and his mother was Margarethe Molner. He was the eldest of three brothers, followed by Clawes and Jasper. Origins of Clawes van der Sittow (? - 1482) are not clear - he might have originated from the village of Zittow near Wismar or he could have been of Flemish origin. He arrived to Reval in 1454 and became a citizen of Reval in 1457. Clawes was a wealthy man for an artist, owning several houses in the city. He became an assessor in the artisans' guild in 1479.

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