Portrait of Vincenzo II Gonzaga

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Vincent II Gonzaga (1594-1627) was Duke of Mantua and Duke of Montferrat from 1626 until his death. He ascended to the throne at Ferdinando Gonzaga's death in 1626. He died a few months later without having succeeded in stabilizing the duchy's pressing financial problems or providing the dynasty with an heir who might guarantee a legitimate succession of power.

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About the Artist

Justus Sustermans

1597 – 1681

Flemish painter and draughtsman, active in Italy. During his lifetime Giusto Suttermans (as he signed his name), court painter to the Medici, was considered the foremost portrait painter in Italy, the peer of van Dyck, Rubens or Holbein. His best works show that he deserved his contemporaries' esteem, but time, the extinction of the Medici family and the failure of art historians to recognize the difference between his autograph works and those by his workshop, copyists and contemporary Florentine painters have all contributed to tarnish his once high reputation.

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