Pieter van Coninxloo

Little is known of his life apart from his appearance in records of 1479, 1503 and 1513, in the archives of Margaret of Austria when he is mentioned in relation to the commission of portraits.

In 1505 he was paid for a portrait of Margaret of Austria commissioned by Philip the Good with the intention of sending it to Henry VII of England.

[3] Max Friedländer believes he may have been one of the most significant of the Brussels school painters before Bernard van Orley.

He is sometimes associated with the unidentified artist known as the Master of the Legend of the Magdalen (Meister der Magdalenenlegende), thought to have been a court painter to Margaret of Austria, and who shares similarities of style, time and location.

A number of art historians, including Max Friedländer, who first identified the Master of the Legend of the Magdalen, speculated that they may have been the same person.