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Josse Lieferinxe, documented (1493 - 1505/8)

• Was a South Netherlandish painter.
• Josse Lieferinxe formerly known by the pseudonym the Master of St. Sebastian.
• Josse Lieferinxe was documented as a "Picard" in the regions of Avignon and Marseille.
• He was first mentioned in Provence in 1493.
• Thus he figures among the painters of the Provençal school, whose most prominent members in an earlier generation had also been from the far north of the French-speaking world—Barthélemy d'Eyck and Enguerrand Quarton.
• In 1503 he married Michelle, a daughter of Jean Changenet, the most prominent painter of Avignon.
• He was last mentioned living in 1505, and in 1508 as deceased. 
• Before he was identified by Charles Sterling who linked his work with a document, his artistic personality was recognized, as the "Master of St. Sebastian".
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