Diego de Guevara

Don Diego de Guevara (c. 1450 – 1520) was a Spanish courtier and ambassador who served four, possibly five, successive Dukes of Burgundy, spanning the Valois and Habsburg dynasties, mostly in the Low Countries.

[3] Diego de Guevara owned the famous Arnolfini Portrait by Jan van Eyck, dated 1434 and now in the National Gallery, London and gave it to Margaret of Austria by 1516, as an inventory of her goods made that year records.

[12] There is also an identification of Diego de Guevara as subject of a portrait in 1548 in the inventory of the Spanish widow of Hendrik III of Nassau,[13] an ally and close friend of Charles V who was a general and diplomat for the Habsburgs.

[15] His son also says he was in possession of a portrait of Diego painted by Rogier van der Weyden (died 1464), for which no surviving candidates have been identified; he would have been a very young man at the time.

[2] Guevara was also a keen collector of Hieronymous Bosch, and in 1570-4 and 1596 Philip II of Spain bought several panels from Diego and Filipe's descendants, including The Haywain Triptych and Cutting the Stone now in the Prado.