Active in
Bruges around 1480–1490, he is named after a pair of portraits (originally the wings of a triptych) of the Italian banker
Pierantonio Baroncelli and his wife Maria Bonciani, which are now in the collection of the
Uffizi Gallery in
Florence. Only a few other works by the same master are known. A Pentecost, the provenance of which can be traced back to Bruges, ca. 1600, was sold in 2010 at
Christie's for £4,185,250.[1]
The Master is supposed to have been influenced by
Hans Memling and
Petrus Christus. His work, and especially the Pentecost, has been influential on later artists from Bruges, in particular
Simon Bening.[2]
Works attributed to the Master of the Baroncelli Portraits
Two portraits of Italian banker
Pierantonio Baroncelli and his wife Maria Bonciani, residents of Bruges: these paintings, now in the Uffizi Gallery, gave the painter his Notname.