Jean de Court used
painted Limoges enamel and
oil painting, and served as official portrait painter to the monarchs of Scotland and France. The de Court dynasty of enamel painters ran a workshop making
Limoges enamel over several generations in
Limoges in south-western France.
In 1567, he is recorded as a valet and
court painter of
Mary Queen of Scots, although it is not clear if he had actually accompanied her to Scotland.[1] In 1572, he succeeded
François Clouet as
painter to the king at the court of her brother-in-law
Charles IX of France, and was in turn succeeded by his son, Charles de Court, in 1584 or 1589. Jean de Court painted in 1574 a portrait of
Henry III, then
Duke of Anjou. He painted a miniature portrait of him as king four years later.[2]
Noted enamel painter
Susanne (de) Court is speculated to have been the daughter of Jean.[3]
Portrait of a lady, traditionally identified as Louise de Lorraine (1553-1601)
References
^Andrew Laing, 'The Household of Mary Queen of Scots in 1573', Scottish Historical Review, 2:8 (July 1905), pp. 345-355 at pp. 348, 353: Alexandre Teulet, Relations Politiques, vol. 2 (Paris, 1862), p. 273.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
public domain:
Bryan, Michael (1886).
"Court, Jean de". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). Vol. I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.